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Alex Trebek was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital after he suffered a mild heart attack, but the 71-year-old Jeopardy! host is expected to fully recover before the game show resumes production on a new season next month.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s finance minister, said President Barack Obama should focus on the U.S. budget deficit rather than advising Europeans on how to stem the euro area’s debt crisis, arguing that the U.S. deficit is “higher than that of the eurozone.”

Bob Russell, of Southlake, Texas, is “still trying to come down from the adrenaline rush” after he found the 1967 Austin Healey that was stolen from him more than 40 years ago in a California car dealer’s eBay auction and regained possession of the vehicle with the help of police.

Tim Pawlenty, the Republican former governor of Minnesota who dropped out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination last year, is encouraging Mitt Romney, whom he has endorsed, to look elsewhere for a running mate.

Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., a former aide for retired Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, held the first “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Ariz., since Giffords and Barber were among 13 people wounded in a shooting at the last event, at which six others were killed.

Rae Heim, 18, an Iowan who started her cross-country barefoot run in Boston in April and hopes to reach Huntington Beach, Calif., in October, said she’s averaging about 20 miles a day in her effort to raise money to provide shoes for needy children.

Anthony Sanchez was charged by Imperial County, Calif., prosecutors with felony child abuse after police reviewed the video a neighbor posted online that purports to show him hitting his stepson with a belt for dropping a baseball during a game of backyard catch.

Ricky Carandang, a spokesman for Philippines President Benigno Aquino III, said that veteran Jordanian journalist Baker Atyani, who was last seen on June 12 getting into a van with two unidentified men during a reporting trip to the restive southern province of Sulu, is now considered a captive.

President Barack Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, urged Congress to reach agreement on a transportation bill to repair the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges and a plan to prevent students from having their loan rates double on July 1.

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