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East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl

Sep 2
Forecasters say Provincetown, Mass., could experience hurricane force winds and up to two inches of rain as Hurricane Earl passes south of Nantucket Island on Friday, Sept. 3. The storm could also bring tropical storm conditions and beach erosion to Fire Island.

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Florida primary yields mixed results for LGBT candidates

By Joseph Erbentraut | Sep 2
Florida House candidate and Wilton Manors Commissioner Justin Flippen was among the gay and lesbian candidates who lost their races in Florida’s Aug. 24 primary, but Attorney General Bill McCollum’s defeat in the Republican gubernatorial contest indicates voters increasingly reject anti-LGBT rhetoric on the campaign trail.

Aussie Anti-Gay Pol ’Not Perving to Porn’

Sep 2
A New South Wales politician’s office seems to have done a little research into the realm of porn--or rather a lot of research: up to 200,000 hits to "suspect" online sites.

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Entertainment

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquar

Katy Perry wows them at NYC’s Splash

By JC Alvarez | Aug 31
Katie Perry started last Friday on the Today Show and ended it at Splash. Here’s our report on her last stop of the day.

Jackie Warner :: making ’Thintervention’ happen

Sep 2
Jackie Warner revealed a lot about herself with her last Bravo series Work Out, with her newest Thintervention, she guides a group of in-need clients through a weight loss program. EDGE spoke to the health guru about her latest reality series.

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Style

A corner window display outside a Macy’s department store in St. Louis. A private research group’s survey of Americans shows that consumer confidence improved slightly in August, but the mood is still gloomy amid job worries.

American Shoppers Skittish In August

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO | Sep 2
Nervous about jobs and an unraveling economy, shoppers spent - at best - only slightly more this August than last, according to data released Wednesday by MasterCard’s SpendingPulse.

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Business/Finance

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg

Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation

By Matthew Perrone | Sep 2
Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.

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Technology

Ancient figurines from a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple

Jordan unearths 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple

Sep 2
Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said Wednesday.

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Travel

The Old Faithful geyser erupts in Calistoga, Calif., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. This isn’t the biggest geyser in the world, but it is regular, spouting off every 40 minutes or so. The water, about 350 degrees, shoots as high as 60 feet.

Five Top Napa Valley Vine Values

By MICHELLE LOCKE | Sep 2
No doubt about it, the Napa Valley can be expensive. Hundred- dollar bottle of wine? They’ve got it. Thousand-a-night hotel suite? Right this way. But there are vine values to be found if you know where to look.

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Health/Fitness

Condom Fashion Show

Sep 1
In a bid to promote safe sex and raise awareness about the risk of HIV and Aids, a fashion show in Colombia featured 12,000 condoms. Reuters’ Tara Cleary reports.

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