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• Selma Blair abruptly exits 'Anger Management'
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:04 -0400
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Selma Blair is making a sudden exit from the Charlie Sheen sitcom "Anger Management."
• Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:33 -0400
  SAO PAULO (AP) — About 50,000 protesters energetically returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Tuesday night, a demonstration of anger toward what they call a corrupt and inefficient government that has long ignored the demands of a growing middle class.
• Singapore fumes as air pollution hits 16-year high
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:00 -0400
  SINGAPORE (AP) — Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years.
• 18 mayors: Limit use of food stamps to buy soda
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:11:19 -0400
  NEW YORK (AP) — The mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks.
• Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:06:02 -0400
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on the House floor this week.
• Beverage group: 18 mayors wrong on sugary drinks
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:01:11 -0400
  NEW YORK (AP) — The American Beverage Association says efforts by the mayors of 18 cities to stop food stamps from being used to buy sugary drinks won't make the nation healthier.
• 3 charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom, child
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:00:19 -0400
  ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday.
• Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies
  Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:56:05 -0400
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.