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               |                                                           |   09/20/2012  |                                                  |                                                                                                                                                  |       |         |      |        | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The November 6 election is still seven   weeks away, but early, in-person voting begins in two states   on Friday, even as Democrats and Republicans battle in court   over controversial plans to limit such voting before Election   Day.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                            |       |         |      |        | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator gave pay-TV firm   BSkyB a clean bill of health on Thursday, saying there was no   evidence it was linked to a phone hacking scandal which engulfed   Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, its largest shareholder.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open   on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, the   Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 all down 0.4 percent.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan was arrested on Wednesday   after a pedestrian told police that her car struck him as the   "Mean Girls" actress was driving into a hotel in New York, New   York City police said.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Derek Jeter tied the New York Yankees franchise   record with his eighth 200-hit season when he lashed a single   up the middle on Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | FRANKFURT/BOSTON (Reuters) - The German government urged the   public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp's   Internet Explorer following discovery of a yet-to-be repaired   bug in the Web browser that the software maker said makes PCs   vulnerable hacker attacks.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity,   dispatched to determine if the planet most like Earth in the   solar system could have supported microbial life, has taken   on a second job - moonlighting as an astronomer.. |          |     |                                                                                                                                                 |     |         |      |        | LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier who did not realize she   was pregnant has given birth to a baby boy at the Camp Bastion   field hospital in Afghanistan.. |          |     |                                                          |          |                                                                                            |                |          |              | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US                                                                             economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today |     |          |          |          |                |          |              | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity,                                                                             hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today |     |          |          |          |        | » MORE NEWSLETTERS |          |          |        |                                                                                                                                                                                      |          |             |   
  
      
 
 
 
          
      
 
 
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