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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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• Chase, Europe may weigh on markets this week

  NEW YORK --- More volatility could be in store for stocks next week as investors grapple with less certainty about the economic outlook and a new blow to the financial sector after JPMorgan Chase's trading loss. Europe is expected to keep investors jumpy as well, with inconcl …

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• Governor: Calif. facing huge cuts with $16 billion shortfall

  Source: msnbc.com
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• Greece abandons quest to form government, lurches toward new elections

  ATHENS -- Greek politicians abandoned their quest to form a government on Saturday, leaving the president with one final opportunity to avert new elections that could drive the debt-choked country out of the European single currency. Greece's political landscape is in disarray a …

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• Three decades after double homicide, man allegedly walks into Iowa police station and confesses

  Three decades have passed since Robert and Goldie Huntbach were found tied up and shot to death in their Waterloo, Iowa, home, and no suspects were ever arrested in the elderly couple's murders -- until this week, when one of them voluntarily walked into police headqua …

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