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Shrinking soaps vie for Daytime Emmy Awards

Julie Marie Berman accepts the award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for "General Hospital" at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, June 16, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — “Days of Our Lives” won drama series honors for just the second time in 40 years at the Daytime Emmys in a rough-hewn ceremony that included more upsets and an envelope mix-up on Sunday night.

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Morning show is latest CNN change under Zucker

This April 16, 2012 file photo shows ABC News' Chris Cuomo at the premiere of the film "Safe"  in New York. Cuomo will host CNN's "New Day" morning show premiering on Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — For anyone watching CNN, it’s been hard to miss the sunny reminders popping up on the bottom of the screen that Monday is the debut of the “New Day” morning show.

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Filmmaker takes center stage in surveillance story

In this Sept. 20, 2012 file photo originally provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grants, is shown in Berlin. Poitras' role as the first point-person for disclosures about U.S. surveillance programs has drawn  attention to the independent filmmaker who, abruptly, has pushed documentaries deeper into the realm of journalistic immediacy. For peers and backers of Poitras, the 2012 recipient of a $500,000 "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, it's unsurprising that she has seized a story worth telling. However, her crucial involvement with a confidential source and two newspapers breaking elements of the same big exclusive is extraordinary. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Sean Gallup)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Laura Poitras’ skill and boldness as a documentary filmmaker have gained her Oscar and Emmy nominations, Sundance Film Festival honors and a public TV showcase, even if her work fell short of making a “Super Size Me” splash.

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Soledad O’Brien joining HBO’s ‘Real Sports’

This March 26, 2013 file photo shows journalist Soledad O'Brien at a birthday party for Chaka Kahn in New York. O'Brien is joining fellow "Today" show alum Bryant Gumbel at HBO's "Real Sports." HBO said Wednesday, June 12, that O'Brien will be a reporter on the monthly magazine show, which is anchored by Gumbel. Her first story, due this month, is about war veterans who use martial arts to help cope with post-traumatic stress disorder. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — Soledad O’Brien is joining fellow “Today” show alum Bryant Gumbel at HBO’s “Real Sports.”

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Greek state TV closure triggers strikes

A man sits next to the main entrance of the Greek state television ERT headquarters as other stand during a rainfall in Athens, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. Greece’s two largest labor unions called a 24-hour general strike for Thursday amid escalating protests against a decision to close state-run TV and radio that threw the country’s conservative-led government into political crisis nearly a year after taking office. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s fragile governing coalition failed to reach a compromise Wednesday about the closure of the state-run ERT broadcaster. That left the government in a crisis that could lead to early elections, just a year after it was formed to save the country from bankruptcy.

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