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LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- A TV ad by a group advocating the legalization and taxation of marijuana in California will not be run by some broadcast networks, the group said.

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WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she was not briefed by CIA Director Leon Panetta about the agency misleading U.S. lawmakers routinely.

LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- Bob Mitchell, a silent film organist, 66-year choir director and Dodger Stadium's first house musician has died in Los Angeles. He was 96.

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MADRID, July 9 (UPI) -- Fast food chain Burger King has apologized to Hindus for an ad run in Spain that depicted an Indian goddess with a beef burger, which the religion forbids.

DENVER, July 9 (UPI) -- The Denver Zoo has welcomed its fifth baby okapi, the first of the species to be delivered at the zoo since December 2007.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 9 (UPI) -- Google Inc. continued to record more U.S. Internet searches in June than all of its competitors combined, an Internet researcher group said Thursday.

ALBANY, N.Y., July 9 (UPI) -- New York Republicans geared up for a fight to oppose Gov. David Paterson's nomination of Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, lawmakers say.

CANBERRA, Australia, July 9 (UPI) -- An Australian-led team of scientists says it has determined the amount of frozen carbon in Earth's northern regions is more than double previous estimates.

NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) -- A not-as-bad-as-feared loss of $454 million posted by Alcoa and lower first-time jobless claims figure helped push U.S. markets to marginal gains Thursday.

LAGOS, Nigeria, July 9 (UPI) -- China's oil companies, buoyed by the country's foreign exchange reserves that now top $2 trillion for the first time, are on another buying spree in Africa, further challenging the century-long domination of the continent's mineral wealth by Europe's great powers.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- The leadership of the terrorist cabal al-Qaida is hiding in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northwest Pakistan, the top U.S. military official said.

L'AQUILA, Italy, July 9 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed alternative energy teamwork, a Russian Group of Eight summit delegate said.

TEHRAN, July 9 (UPI) -- The Iranian Basij militia confronted hundreds of protesters Thursday in Tehran, using nightsticks and tear gas to disperse the crowd, witnesses said.

L'AQUILA, Italy, July 9 (UPI) -- World leaders have agreed to work together to greatly reduce carbon emissions by 2050, U.S. President Barack Obama said at the Group of Eight summit Thursday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 9 (UPI) -- Carlos Pena's fifth-inning two-run double Thursday led the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 9 (UPI) -- Suspected rapists in Afghanistan enjoy cultural and judicial leniency while their victims suffer from social stigma, U.N. human-rights officials say.

TORONTO, July 9 (UPI) -- Emperor Akihito of Japan, accompanied by Empress Michiko on their Canadian tour Thursday, visited Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill., July 9 (UPI) -- Police say a 50-year-old man should not have become close to a woman he met in a strip club in Chicago Heights, Ill., given she allegedly stole from him.