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• European leaders add to rising fears of breakup

  European officials are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Greece. In an apparent signal to Greek voters, the head of the World Bank warned Thursday that if Athens were to depart from the common currency, Spain and Italy could well be the next dominoes to fall in Europe&rsq …

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• Black market boom: Spaniards go underground to fight deepening recession

  Source: msnbc.com
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• California governor calls for higher taxes, 4-day state workweek to fill $16 billion gap

  Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET: California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday asked state employees to work a four-day, 38-hour week as part of a package of massive spending cuts needed to help the state close an unexpected $15.7 billion budget deficit.

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• France's 'Monsieur Normal' takes office ... unmarried

  Updated at 09:55 a.m. ET Tuesday: Just as we were getting used to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Napoleonic style, rather large ears and twitchy manner, and his knock-out French-Italian wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s catwalk charm, breathless voice and bling, it’s out …

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• Obama ends March with 10x more cash than Romney

    President Obama's re-election campaign had 10 times more money in the bank at the end of March than the campaign of presumptive GOP Mitt Romney, according to federal records.  Obama For America, the president's re-election account, ended last month with about $104 mi …

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