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Darlene Superville, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said as he reaffirmed his commitment to work hard for America’s hardworking men and women.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama on Saturday outlined what he’s done to help the middle class, a group he says has been squeezed the most during the recession.

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(AP) JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal — who smoked up to two packs a day — puffing away circulated the Internet in May and sparked an international outcry. His parents said he’d throw tantrums every time they tried to stop him from lighting up.

Psychologist Seto Mulyadi, who took the child into his own home as part of rehabilitation efforts, said Friday the boy has stopped asking for cigarettes.

He said Aldi picked up the habit because virtually every man in his fishing village in South Sumatra province smokes.

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The National Rifle Association is out with a new ad featuring a doughy, redneck stereotype named Randy, a geriatric “Blue Cougar” or “Blougar” named Louise, and most importantly, action movie star and pop culture legend Chuck Norris.

In the ad, Randy, the group leader, delivers a moving presentation to a congregation of like-minded, denim-loving individuals who seem to embody the “you’ll take my guns from my cold, dead hands” mentality.

After “grandma” Louise gives a particularly fiery explanation of what she’d do to someone who’s trying to come take away her gun, the fun stops.

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Two Chicago police officers were wounded early Wednesday while attempting to serve a search warrant for weapons in the home of a gang member.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the officers entered a home in the 7700 block of South Hoyne Avenue just after midnight. They entered through a rear door of the residence and announced themselves as officers, when shots were fired from behind a closed door.

A 41-year-old male officer was shot in his arm and a 38-year-old male officer was shot in his arm and leg, NBC Chicago reports. Both were hospitalized, but expected to make full recoveries.

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Michael Douglas went on Letterman Tuesday and talked about the recent news that he has throat cancer.

He has just completed his first of eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, and appeared a little thinner than usual, with his suit slightly oversize. With the coming weeks of treatment, he said, his voice may change and it could become impossible to swallow solid food.

But he was upbeat, saying that despite his throat cancer being Stage 4, it has not spread down below his throat. Asked by Letterman what the percentages were, Douglas said he has an 80% chance of recovery, with some hospitals even more optimistic.

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Peter McFarland of Marin County, Calif. is suing the county sheriff’s office for tasing him in his own home while his wife pleaded with them to stop.

The deputies arrived June 29 of last year after McFarland fell outside his home while he and his wife Pearl were returning from a charity fundraiser, and he said something to the effect that if he had a gun, he’d shoot himself in the head.

It was hyperbole, McFarland told the deputies, who arrived after paramedics had already helped him inside. A rare survivor of pancreatic cancer, he considers himself lucky to be alive.

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Demi Moore danced with Snoop at his concert in Las Vegas Friday night.

With husband Ashton Kutcher a few feet away, Demi got down in platform shoes, tossing her hair and putting on a pretty good show.

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If you hate flying, steer clear of Prague.

Franz Kafka International Airport is the worst airport in the world, says The Onion News Network.

The airport’s atmosphere is impersonal, its layout is confusing, and the employees are unsympathetic, even hostile.

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COPIAPO, Chile (Associated Press)- The first video released of the 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean copper mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling “long live Chile, and long live the miners!”

Only about five minutes of what is reportedly a 45-minute video was released late Thursday by Television Nacional de Chile via the Chilean government.

The men made the video with a small camera sent down to them through a small emergency shaft drilled to their emergency shelter deep in the San Jose mine.

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Heidi Cullen, Senior Research Scientist at Climate Central, appeared on Colbert’s show last night to promote her new book, “The Weather Of The Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet.”

Colbert asked Cullen to “refrighten” him about climate change.

Cullen, in response, cited the floods in Pakistan and the heat wave in Russia, which destroyed 30 percent of the country’s wheat yield.

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