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Feeling snubbed, slighted even, when he visited five years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao is getting a do-over -- plus the White House state dinner he sought back then but was denied.

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• Cheney says he may need heart transplant
• Gabrielle Giffords smiles, husband Mark Kelly says
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Tuna and swordfish collected from some California grocery stores and sushi restaurants contained mercury levels as much as three times the threshold that authorizes federal food regulators to pull seafood from shelves, according to a study by an environmental health group. Kelly Zito

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• Golden Gate Park up for landmark status
• Berkeley set to offer sex-change employee benefit
• Bay Area and State

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will offer a private investment in Facebook Inc. only to customers outside of the United States due to concerns that "intense media attention" could trigger violations of U.S. financial disclosure laws. Benny Evangelista

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• Stocks rise on Boeing news
• Steve Jobs medical leave: fears for Apple's future
• Business

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced the arrests of two men who are accused of stealing e-mail addresses and other information from more than 100,000 Apple iPad users.

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• Computer chips may revolutionize gene study
• Amazon could sell 12 million Kindles this year
• Technology

Senior Haitian judicial officials met in private with former Jean-Claude Duvalier and his lawyers Tuesday amid calls to arrest the former dictator for human rights violations committed under his brutal regime.

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• 4 ministers quit new Tunisia government
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