| Best-selling U.S. author Tom Clancy dies at 66 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:21 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Best-selling U.S. author Tom Clancy, whose military thrillers about spies and submarines fascinated readers with their high-stakes plots and enthralled military experts with their precise details, has died, his publisher said on Wednesday. "We are saddened by the passing of beloved bestselling author Tom Clancy. Fans worldwide, including us, will miss him greatly," publisher Penguin Books USA said on its official Twitter feed. The G.P. Putnam's imprint that appeared on Clancy's books is a unit of Penguin. ...
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| Billionaire Republican donor Adelson loses libel lawsuit Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:39 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and prominent Republican donor, has lost a $60 million libel lawsuit in which he claimed a Democratic group spread a false accusation that he had condoned prostitution in his casinos in Macau. At issue was an article published on July 3, 2012 by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) on its website that sought to dissuade then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republicans from accepting Adelson's allegedly "dirty" and "tainted" money. ...
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