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Deals of the Hour / June 28, 2011, 6:48 pm

No Canadians hurt in Kabul hotel attack

The Intercontinental may be a faded glory, with cracks in many walls and a dark, musty interior, but it had not been attacked in recent years. The hotel can only be entered by a single road that has multiple, fortified checkpoints. (Source: The Vancouver Sun 2011-06-29T01:15:14Z)

Shia LaBeouf: 5 Things You Didn't Know

Here are five things to know about LaBeouf: 1. He got his start on Disney Channel. Now that LaBeouf has become a successful movie actor, it might be easy to forget that his big break came on Disney Channel's series Even Stevens. LaBeouf starred as the ... (Source: Hollywood Reporter 2011-06-29T00:53:46Z)

Spillover of China's Trade Violations Feared

One such sale was the Volvo sale by Ford Motor Co. to China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd., an automaker, for $1.8 billion. The Chinese company understood how to bargain and got a sweet deal, considering that Ford paid $6.4 billion for Volvo in 1999. (Source: The Epoch Times 2011-06-29T01:08:05Z)

1st lawsuit filed over Amtrak train crash in NV

Workers are picking through the blackened mix of sand, bones, and twisted metal in a grim search that may lead them to more remains. Jim Bickley, a property manager from El Dorado Hills, Calif., was sitting in the Zephyr's glass observation car with his ... (Source: Central Florida News 13 2011-06-29T00:10:49Z)

How the World Works - Greece

But the buyers of those bonds are taking a known risk - that's why they buy for a big discount. If governments take that risk away, then we are giving the speculators free money for helping to destabilize the system in the first place as they badmouth the bonds. (Source: DAILY KOS 2011-06-29T00:32:17Z)

MLB 'probably' will try to seize cash-strapped Dodgers

The other removes certain milestones in the financing agreement regarding the sale of the team's broadcast rights. Those milestones included weekly updates on the team's effort to license its broadcast rights, and a July 29 deadline to agree on a process ... (Source: CBS Sports 2011-06-29T01:15:14Z)

Los Alamos scurries to protect nuclear lab from fire

It is safer where it is," he said. The fire, believed to have been ignited Sunday by a fallen power line, has consumed nearly 61,000 acres of thick pine woodlands in the Santa Fe National Forest, which surrounds the lab complex and adjacent town of Los ... (Source: YAHOO! 2011-06-29T00:39:27Z)

Shia LaBeouf: 'I'm Learning How To Edit Myself'

At Tuesday night's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" premiere in New York City, the actor revealed to Access Hollywood he is going to start censoring himself. "I just turned 25," the actor said, referring to his birthday, on June 11, while on the red carpet. (Source: Access Hollywood 2011-06-29T00:39:27Z)

Afghan police: 7 killed in Kabul hotel attack

The hotel sits on a hill overlooking the city and streets leading up to it were blocked. The scene was dark as electricity at the hotel and the surrounding area was out. Azizullah, an Afghan police officer who uses only one name, told an Associated Press ... (Source: USA Today 2011-06-29T01:08:05Z)

The Best Smartphone Stock? Not Apple

Even though HTC has more robust growth prospects, the stock trades for only about 12 times 2011 earnings estimates, a discount to Apple's P/E of about ... with the Thornburg International Value fund in Santa Fe, N.M., said that HTC should be growing ... (Source: WIBW 2011-06-29T00:10:49Z)

NATO helicopters end Kabul hotel siege; 6 dead

The hotel sits on a hill overlooking the city and streets leading up to it were blocked. The scene was dark as electricity at the hotel and the surrounding area was out. Azizullah, an Afghan police officer who uses only one name, told an Associated Press ... (Source: Union-News & Sunday Republican 2011-06-29T00:46:36Z)

Wildfire Moves Closer Towards New Mexico Nuclear Lab

Tom Udall, D-N.M., who visited evacuees at the Santa Claran Hotel Casino in Espanola. "When you combine all of those together, (it's) very explosive." (Source: FOX News 2011-06-29T00:53:46Z)

Rutten: The Dodgers, the McCourts and the errors of their ways

He fancied himself as a serious bidder for the Red Sox in 2001 when the Yawkey Trust put the team up for sale, but nobody in Boston took McCourt ... fan dissatisfaction is only going to grow," David Carter, executive director of USC's Sports Business ... (Source: Los Angeles Times 2011-06-29T01:08:05Z)

Greece wants new bailout talks finished by fall

While Samaras supports cost-cutting measures and the sale of some government assets, he has called the thinking behind the austerity bill flawed. He says tax rates should be lowered rather than raised in order to stimulate an economy in recession. (Source: Times and Democrat 2011-06-27T20:01:27Z)

Shia LaBeouf says his run in 'Transformers' ends on a high note

MOSCOW — As he promoted "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" at the film's world premiere the other day in the Russian capital, Shia LaBeouf seemed more interested in talking about making a big chunk of the movie in Chicago last summer. "At least I ... (Source: Chicago Sun-Times 2011-06-29T00:46:36Z)

Peter Facinelli Making 'Whitey' Bulger Movie

We have a script and everything ready." He said that James "Whitey" Bulger's arrest in Santa Monica June 22 made the country aware of the notorious mobster -- and gave the story an ending. Before the arrest, there were all kinds of rumors about Bulger ... (Source: TheWrap 2011-06-29T00:32:17Z)

Battle over Dodgers moves on in bankruptcy court

The other removes certain milestones in the financing agreement regarding the sale of the team's broadcast rights. Those milestones included weekly updates on the team's effort to license its broadcast rights, and a July 29 deadline to agree on a process ... (Source: NBC Sports 2011-06-29T00:39:27Z)

Los Alamos nuclear lab under siege from wildfire

"The risk of exposure is so small," he said. "I wouldn't sit here and inhale plutonium. I may be crazy, but I'm not dumb." Associated Press writer Barry Massey contributed to this report from Santa Fe, N.M. (Source: Associated Press 2011-06-29T01:29:33Z)

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' jacket sells for $1.8 million at auction

It includes an inscription to them on the jacket's lining, and the sleeve is signed, "Love Michael Jackson." Its sale came exactly two years after the then 50-year-old Jackson was killed by a surgical anesthetic called Propofol, which a Los Angeles coroner ... (Source: Los Angeles Wave Newspapers 2011-06-29T01:29:33Z)

Truck Driver In Amtrak Crash Had Spotty Driving Record

RENO, Nev. -- Workers wearing hazmat suits dug through burnt-out rail cars and twisted metal on Monday at the scene of a horrific collision between a tractor-trailer and an Amtrak train as new details surfaced about the spotty driving record of the man at ... (Source: BayInsider 2011-06-28T04:08:13Z)

Survivors describe horrific Nevada Amtrak crash

Workers are picking through the blackened mix of sand, bones, and twisted metal in a grim search that may lead them to more remains. Jim Bickley, a property manager from El Dorado Hills, Calif., was sitting in the Zephyr's glass observation car with his ... (Source: Las Vegas Review Journal 2011-06-29T01:22:23Z)

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