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Obama's record before the nation's largest civil rights organization. • • 3. DICK CHENEY LENDS STAR POWER TO ROMNEY • The former vice president is hosting a fundraiser for the likely Republican nominee at a mountain valley resort and a private dinner at his Wyoming home. • • 4. US, CHINA SQUARE OFF OVER MARITIME CLAIMS • The Obama administration presses China to accept a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea. • • 5. COMMON CHILDHOOD ILLNESS RAGES ACROSS ASIA • A menacing form of hand, foot and mouth disease is causing high fever, brain swelling, paralysis and respiratory shutdown in some children. • • 6. MORE US HOMES ON FORCLOSURE PATH IN JUNE • Banks are increasingly placing homes with unpaid mortgages on a countdown that could deliver a swell of new foreclosed properties onto the market by early next year. • • 7. WHY AN INCREASE IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH COLLEGE DEGREES IS DISAPPOINTING • The small rise in college completion reported by the Education Department is still well below the pace needed to reach President Obama's goal of having the U.S. rank first worldwide in college graduates. •
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