The 39-year-old captain was in the starting lineup for Thursday's series finale against the Kansas City Royals. He is the designated hitter, batting second.

Jeter broke his left ankle during the AL championship series opener against Detroit last Oct. 13. He had said he would return by opening day, then fractured the ankle again in April during his rehabilitation.

A 13-time All-Star with a .313 career average, Jeter hopes to jolt a batting order that is next to last in runs in the AL. The Yankees started Thursday fourth in the AL East at 49-42.

New York hopes to get third baseman Alex Rodriguez back this month following January hip surgery and center fielder Curtis Granderson next month after his broken pinkie has healed. First baseman Mark Teixeira is out for the season following wrist surgery.

Jeter went 1 for 9 during a four-game injury rehabilitation assignment at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre that started Saturday, including 0 for 3 during seven innings Wednesday night.

Bluewater Productions, which publishes a series of female celebrity-driven comic books, said the biography comic book called "Female Force: Paula Deen" will be released in October and include Deen's fall from grace.

"She really changed cooking - and Southern cooking - for women," said Bluewater President Darren G. Davis, who added that the comic book had been in the works for several months before many of Deen's business partners cut ties with her.

Davis said Bluewater, which has partnered with celebrities such as TV host Ellen DeGeneres and actor William Shatner, had reached out to Deen for a partnership several months earlier but the 66-year-old Southern food doyenne has not yet responded.

The partnership would involve the company donating money to a charity chosen by Deen and running ads for the charity on Deen's behalf. Deen will not receive any money from the comic.

"We're not jumping on the bandwagon," Davis said about Deen's business partners who distanced their brands from the celebrity chef.

"We're moving forward with this 'Female Force' series because she fits in with women like Julia Child and Barbara Walters," David added. "We're not going to flamb her."

The bulk of the comic book will be about the entrepreneur who turned a home-based catering business into a culinary empire. Printings of the comic books range from about 1,000 copies to 150,000, Davis said, but he didn't yet know how many Paula Deen copies would go to print.

Deen's multi-million dollar business of cookbooks, restaurants and home supplies began to crumble last month when a legal deposition was released in which Deen, who is white, said that she had used the "N-word" in the past.

Although Deen said she never intentionally hurt anyone, she lost about a dozen business deals after the deposition surfaced in court documents, including partnerships with retailers Target Corp and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney, additional reporting by Eric Kelsey in Los Angeles, editing by Mary Milliken and Cynthia Osterman)

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SOCCER

CONCACAF GOLD CUP

Canada v Martinique

Mexico v Panama

Martinique and Panama cause upsets on first day of Gold Cup

Twice defending champions Mexico fell to a 2-1 defeat by Panama on the opening day of the CONCACAF Gold Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California after Martinique upset Canada. (SOCCER-CONCACAF/GOLD, moved, 200 words)

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GOLF

PGA Tour: The Greenbrier Classic. White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Blixt beats Wagner to Greenbrier Classic title

Swede Jonas Blixt took advantage of a last-day collapse by overnight leader Johnson Wagner to win his second PGA Tour title by two shots at the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia on Sunday. (GOLF-PGA/, moved, 450 words)

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BASEBALL

Corbin bounces back with win over the Rockies

Patrick Corbin earned his first win in more than a month as the Arizona Diamondbacks marched to a 6-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday. (BASEBALL-ROUNDUP/, moved, 300 words)

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TENNIS

Murray faces media after historic Wimbledon triumph

LONDON - Wimbledon champion Andy Murray faces the media after becoming the first British man to win the grasscourt grand slam since Fred Perry in 1936. (TENNIS-WIMBLEDON/MURRAY, expect by 1130 GMT/7.30 AM ET, by Martyn Herman, 600 words)

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ATP: Hall of fame Championships, Newport, U.S. (to 14)

Swedish Open, Bastad (to 14)

Stuttgart Cup, Germany (to 14)

WTA: Palermo International, Italy (to 14)

Budapest Grand Prix, Hungary (to 14)

Copy on merit

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CYCLING

Tour de France (to 21)

Froome, Contador meet the media as Tour enjoys rest day

LA BEAULE, France - Overall leader Chris Froome and rival Alberto Contador hold news conferences on the first rest day of the Tour de France (CYCLING-TOUR/ (PIX), expect by 1530 GMT/11:30 AM ET, by Julien Pretot, 600 words)

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CRICKET

Tri-Nation Series

West Indies v Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka in trouble, rain forces Monday finish

Sri Lanka were reeling at 60 for three after 19 overs when their match against West Indies was suspended for the day because of persistent rain at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain on Sunday. (CRICKET-TRINATION/WINDIES, moved, 400 words)

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Battle-hardened England strong favourites to retain Ashes

LONDON - A battle-hardened and experienced England side go into the five-match test series as strong favourites to retain the Ashes against a callow-looking Australia team. (CRICKET-ASHES/ (PREVIEW), moved, by Ed Osmond, 550 words). We will also move a profile of Australia captain Michael Clarke and England batsman Kevin Pietersen.

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MOTOR RACING

F1 still faces challenges after German Grand Prix

NUERBURGRING, Germany - Sebastian Vettel enjoyed a first German Grand Prix victory but with a Silverstone tyre test coming up and new tyres due for Hungary, Formula One is still full of challenges. (MOTOR RACING-PRIX/, expect by 1000 GMT/6 AM ET, by Mark Meadows, 400 words) (Duty editor: Ian Ransom, Asia sports desk; +61466151684)

LONDON (Reuters) - Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus from their bodies, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Both patients, who were treated in Boston and had been on long-term drug therapy to control their HIV, received stem-cell transplants after developing lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.

Since the transplants, doctors have been unable to find any evidence of HIV infection, Timothy Henrich of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston told an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur.

While it is too early to say for sure that the virus has disappeared from their bodies altogether, one patient has now been off antiretroviral drug treatment for 15 weeks and the other for seven weeks.

Last July Henrich first reported that the two men had undetectable levels of HIV in their blood after their stem-cell treatment, but at that time they were still taking medicines to suppress HIV.

Using stem-cell therapy is not seen as a viable option for widespread use, since it is extremely expensive, but the latest cases could open new avenues for fighting the disease, which infects about 34 million people worldwide.

The latest cases resemble that of Timothy Ray Brown, known as "the Berlin patient", who became the first person to be cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant for leukaemia in 2007. There are, however, important differences.

While Brown's doctor used stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, known as CCR5 delta 32, which renders people virtually resistant to HIV, the two Boston patients received cells without this mutation.

"Dr. Henrich is charting new territory in HIV eradication research," Kevin Robert Frost, chief executive officer of the Foundation for AIDS Research, which funded the study, said in a statement.

Scientific advances since HIV was first discovered more than 30 years ago mean the virus is no longer a death sentence and the latest antiretroviral AIDS drugs can control the virus for decades.

But many people still do not get therapy early enough, prompting the World Health Organisation to call for faster roll-out of medicines after patients test positive.

Indian generics companies are leading suppliers of HIV drugs to Africa and to many other poor countries. Major Western HIV drugmakers include Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson and ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GlaxoSmithKline.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a victory for Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider whether the state of Indiana can prevent the nonprofit, which is the country's largest provider of abortions, from receiving federal Medicaid funding for any medical services it offers to low-income people.

Supporters of the law, which was blocked by an appeals court, had wanted to prohibit any government funding of Planned Parenthood's medical programs, such as cancer and HIV screenings, because the group also provides abortion services.

Medicaid is a federal health program for lower-income people that is administered by the states.

Under existing federal and state law, no government funds can be used to directly fund abortions, but Indiana's law went further by saying that no group that provides abortions could receive government funding for other services. The funding would have the effect of subsidizing the abortion programs, the law's supporters say.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled in October that Indiana had broad authority to exclude unqualified providers from its Medicaid program for the poor, but could not deny funding to a class of providers for an unrelated reason, which in this instance was because Planned Parenthood clinics perform abortions.

Indiana Attorney General Gregory Zoeller, a Republican, subsequently sought Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case leaves the appeals court ruling in place.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen U.S. states have in the last few years taken steps to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, prompting it to file several lawsuits.

Planned Parenthood is the country's largest provider of abortions, conducting about one-quarter of those performed in the United States.

The case is Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration v. Planned Parenthood, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-1039.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller and Mohammad Zargham)

"I had been thinking if I was going to do a grand opera, I didn't want it to be "The Summer I Lost My Kitten" blown up with a large orchestra," Adamo said in an interview. "It needed to be a big subject, something that was authentically better in a big theater."

The result, which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, is "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," a radical retelling of the biblical story of Jesus. It's about as large-scale as new operas come these days, with a cast of 19 soloists, 48 choristers and an orchestra of 65 musicians.

Adamo, a gay man and son of a divorced mother, was raised as a Catholic but struggled with the church's strict views on sexuality. He said a 2006 article by Joan Acocella in The New Yorker struck a chord with him in tracing how over the centuries the shadowy figure of Mary Magdalene had been turned into a repentant prostitute and then (notably in Dan Brown's best-seller "The Da Vinci Code") re-imagined as Jesus' wife.

"I started to see it as the story of a woman who is overvaluing her sexual relationships and a guy who for his own complicated family history doesn't want to hear anything about sexuality at all," Adamo said. "Neither of these people is unknown to us as moderns."

He sent his idea to David Gockley, head of the San Francisco Opera and the man who while running the Houston Grand Opera had commissioned Adamo's two previous stage pieces, "Little Women," and an adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata."

"It took some time for me to come on board," Gockley said. "But I eventually came to see it as a wonderful subject for an opera."

He did, however, expect the subject matter would prove controversial and has been surprised at the lack of protest.

"There has been scarcely a ripple from the organized faiths for a piece that debunks the virgin birth, the resurrection, and the celibacy of Jesus," Gockley said. "Just a few people at some of our community outreach events who have stood up and said, 'How dare you!'"

The opera is one of three recent theatrical works to re-examine the role of women in the gospels. John Adams' oratorio, "The Gospel According to the Other Mary," depicts Mary Magdalene in both biblical and modern settings, and Colm Toibin's play "The Testament of Mary," portrays the Virgin Mary as an embittered woman who doubts her son's immortality.

Adamo thinks all these works are part of a healthy reaction against religious orthodoxy that tends to portray women as subservient and carrying the burden of sin for human sexuality.

The composer did a year of research before crafting his own libretto (which is studded with a staggering 116 footnotes that cite biblical and scholarly sources), then spent two years writing the music. He calls the score "probably the least dissonant, most tonal thing I've done."

On opening night, the near-capacity audience gave Adamo a warm, if not ecstatic, ovation. On first hearing, "Gospel" seems hampered by long stretches of theological argument not sufficiently brought to life through the characters or music. Mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke was a radiant and vocally commanding Magdalene, but baritone Nathan Gunn as Jesus (Yeshua in this version) sounded underpowered and seemed dramatically passive.

The first reviews have been mixed to negative. Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle said the opera "burns with the fervor of an artist championing a cause," but said "the result is effective only up to a point." Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times was harsher, calling the piece "disappointing" and characterizing the music as "languid and lyrically meandering."

Ahead of the opening, Adamo and Gockley were hopeful that other companies might want to produce "Gospel," though none had made a commitment. The $3.1 million production cost represents a huge investment for a company that like most opera companies has been struggling to balance its budget.

By contrast, Adamo's "Little Women," based on the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel, uses no chorus and calls for an orchestra of just 18 instrumentalists. The fact that it can be performed on a shoestring budget has contributed to its popularity: Since the premiere in 1998, there have been more than 80 productions at regional houses and conservatories.

Still, Adamo is unapologetic about the size of his new work.

"Why can't an opera be both grand and new?" he said. "Why not write a piece that a big house can do better than a smaller one? Those houses need new work too, or else they'll turn into museums or skating rinks."

"Gospel" continues in repertory through July 7, along with Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann."

The carnage outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo where toppled President Mohammed Morsi was first held last week marked the single biggest death toll since massive protests forced Morsi's government from power and brought in an interim civilian administration.

Even before all the bodies were counted, there were conflicting accounts on how the violence began with Morsi's backers saying it was an unprovoked attack and the military saying they came under assault first.

But the violence is almost certain to draw sharper battle lines between Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents who claim Morsi squandered his 2012 election victory and betrayed the democratic spirit of Egypt's 2011 revolution by seeking only to bolster his and the Brotherhood's grip on the state.

Soon after the attack, however, the Al-Nour party, an ultraconservative party that had been talking to the new government about participating in the political process, announced it was withdrawing its support for the transition plan in response to the "massacre."

The military, which effectively supported the anti-Morsi movement, now may face pressures to impose stricter security measures to try to keep unrest from spilling out of control. It will also have to produce compelling evidence to support its version of events or otherwise suffer what is already shaping to be a Brotherhood media blitz to portray the military as a brutal institution with little regard for human life or democratic values.

In a move that is likely to further inflame the situation, the Freedom and Justice party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, called on Egyptians to rise up against the army. Morsi has been a longtime leader of the Brotherhood.

The Freedom and Justice party also called on the international community to stop what it called the massacres in Egypt and accused the military of pushing Egypt toward civil war, warning the country was in danger of becoming a "new Syria."

Interim President Adly Mansour called for restraint and ordered a judicial inquiry into the killings. Significantly, the statement from his office echoed the military's version of events, noting that the killings followed an attempt to storm the Republican Guard's headquarters.

Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the violence and also called for an investigation.

"Peaceful transition is (the) only way," he wrote on his Twitter account.

A military spokesman said gunmen attempted to storm the building at dawn, prompting the clashes. One witness, university student Mirna el-Helbawi, also said gunmen loyal to Morsi opened fire first, including from the roof of a nearby mosque. El-Helbawi, 21, lives in an apartment overlooking the scene.

Supporters of Morsi, meanwhile, said the security forces fired on hundreds of protesters, including women and children, at a sit-in encampment outside the building as they performed early morning prayers. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the two versions.

Regardless of the reason, the escalating chaos will further complicate Egypt's relations with Washington and other Western allies, which had supported Morsi as the country's first freely elected leader and now are reassessing policies toward the military-backed group that forced him out.

At field hospitals, at least six dead bodies had been laid out on the ground, some with severe wounds, according to video from by pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera. The bodies had been draped with an Egyptian flag and pictures of Morsi. Pools of blood covered the floor and doctors struggled to deal with gaping wounds among some of the hundreds injured.

A medic from the area, Hesham Agami, said ambulances were unable to transport more than 200 wounded to hospitals because the military had blocked off the roads. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled el-Khatib said initial reports indicated at least 40 fatalities and 322 people wounded, although he gave no details on the circumstances of the bloodshed.

A Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, Mourad Ali, said army troops opened fire at dawn on the protesters outside the Republican Guard building, where Morsi was initially held but was later moved to an undisclosed Defense Ministry facility. The account was repeated by others.

"They opened fire with live ammunition and lobbed tear gas," said Al-Shaimaa Younes, who was at the sit-in. "There was panic and people started running. I saw people fall."

Egyptian state TV showed images provided by the military of the scene of the sit-in, where scores of protesters were pelting troops with rocks and setting tires on fire. Soldiers in riot gear and carrying shields formed lines a few meters (yards) away.

A fire raged from an apartment in a building overlooking the clashes. Images showed men throwing spears from atop nearby building rooftops. Other protesters were lobbing fire bombs at the troops. It was not clear when the footage was filmed. Security officers were showing cameras bullet casings, and troops were carrying injured colleagues.

Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said initial information indicates that gunmen affiliated with the Brotherhood tried to storm the Republican Guard building shortly after dawn, firing live ammunition and throwing firebombs from a nearby mosque and rooftops. One police officer on the scene was killed, he said.

A statement by the armed forces carried by the state news agency said "an armed terrorist group" tried to storm the building, killing one officer and seriously wounding six. The statement said the forces arrested 200 attackers, armed with guns and ammunition.

Ali, the Brotherhood spokesman, dismissed such versions, saying the protesters didn't start the confrontation. He said the military had warned protesters it will break up the sit-in.

Morsi supporters have been holding rallies and a sit-in outside the Republican Guard building since the military deposed Morsi on Wednesday. The military chief replaced Morsi with an interim president until presidential elections are held. The transition plan is backed by liberal and secular opponents of Morsi, and had been also supported by the ultraconservative Islamist Al-Nour party and both Muslim and Christian religious leaders.

Al-Nour party spokesman Nader Bakkar said on his Twitter account his party is withdrawing its support for the transition plan in response to the "massacre."

Morsi's supporters refuse to recognize the change in leadership and insist Morsi be reinstated, and have vowed to continue their sit-ins outside the Republican Guard building as well as at a nearby mosque.

Morsi's opponents are also holding rival rallies. They say the former president lost his legitimacy by mismanaging the country and not ruling democratically, leading to a mass revolt that began June 30, the first anniversary of Morsi's assumption of power.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Up-and-coming actress Maika Monroe has booked the female lead opposite Dan Stevens in "The Guest," a psychological thriller from the filmmaking team behind Lionsgate's upcoming horror movie "You're Next."

Adam Wingard will direct from a script by Simon Barrett, while Keith Calder and Jessica Wu will produce via Snoot Entertainment. Production starts this summer.

Stevens ("Downton Abbey") stars as David, an ex-Marine who returns from a tour of duty a changed man and terrorizes a military family whose eldest son recently died.

Monroe will play Anna, the female lead who is suspicious of David and must protect her younger brother from his cold-blooded wrath.

The 20 year-old actress, who recently starred opposite Zac Efron in "At Any Price," will next be seen as a key character in Jason Reitman's "Labor Day." A former professional kiteboarder, she also appeared briefly in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring."

A terrifying original horror movie, "You're Next" premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and will finally hit U.S. theaters on August 23 via Lionsgate.

Monroe is repped by WME, Luber Roklin Entertainment and attorney Fred Toczek.

Established by the passage of federal health care reform, Covered California is creating a new insurance marketplace that will provide individuals and small business throughout the state with greater access to and choices in health coverage.

"Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health care will now be within reach for millions of Americans who are currently uninsured or underinsured. As a public plan, our participation in Covered California is in keeping with our strong support of both national health care reform and Medi-Cal expansion. We are excited to be part of this historic transformation in the health care delivery system, and look forward to helping cover the more than two million uninsured residents of Los Angeles County," said Howard A. Kahn, Chief Executive Officer of L.A. Care Health Plan.

"As the leading Medi-Cal health plan in Los Angeles County, we believe participation in Covered California is a perfect complement to the services we already provide to our existing one million members.Our focus will continue to be ensuring that low-income individuals and families have easy access to a high quality of health care," Kahn added.

In being certified as a QHP, it has been determined that L.A. Care meets specific requirements, standards and criteria and will "provide health care coverage choices that offer the optimal combination of choice, value, quality and service."

About L.A. CareL.A. Care Health Plan (Local Initiative Health Authority of Los Angeles County) is a public entity and community-accountable health plan serving residents of Los Angeles County through a variety of programs including , , , and . L.A. Care is a leader in developing new programs through innovative partnerships designed to provide health coverage to vulnerable populations and to support the safety net. With more than one million members, L.A. Care is the nation's largest publicly operated health plan.

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A man who formed two cancer organizations misled consumers into believing that most of their donated money was going to charity, says John Suthers, attorney general of Colorado.

Adam Cole Shryock used money from Boobies Rock! and Say No 2 Cancer for himself and gave only nominal sums to legitimate cancer causes, a .

Shryock misled thousands of consumers in Colorado and across the country into believing they were supporting breast cancer-related charities, said Suthers .

In reality, very little of the money collected went to legitimate cancer groups as Shryock tapped those funds to buy himself a BMW, subscribe to an online dating service, and pay his bar and cleaning service tabs.

A call to Say No 2 Cancer was not returned.

The website for Boobies Rock! has been taken down, although the online blogwas able to capture a screen grab of it. A twitter feed also exists but has not been updated since late November.

that seems to be connected to Boobies Rock! and was surfaced by Westword is still on the Web. The bright pink site describes Boobies Rock! as a creative blend of music, sports, fashion and pop culture. Established in September of 2010, Boobies Rock! has quickly grown to become one of the leading advocates for the awareness of breast cancer across the U.S. Our mission is simple; to create awareness through fun, fashionable and humorous clothing and accessories.

According to the attorney general's complaint, both Boobies Rock! and Say No 2 Cancer would hold events, mostly in bars across the country, and hire promotional models to take donations on behalf of Boobies Rock!, saying the company was raising money for breast cancer nonprofit groups. The models would sell T-shirts, beer koozies, bracelets and other items with pro-breast or anti-cancer images and/or slogans.

The complaint alleges that bar owners and customers were told that a significant donation would be made to cancer organizations, but that none of the legitimate organizations received money from the groups until they threatened to sue.

also may add doubt to the company's intentions. One reviewer from Joliet, Ill., called the company "sleazy and dishonest." Kelly H. from Tucson, Ariz., added, "I worked for this organization for two months as a promotional manager and was given information to give to all the girls that directs them to say "'all of the proceeds go to Breast Cancer Awareness.' That is a TOTAL LIE! This is a for profit company that gives very little to none of their money to breast cancer. I am doing everything I can to make sure that this scam is made known nation wide. Do not buy anything from this company!"

Colorado began investigating the organizations after the attorneys general of Illinois and Indiana . A Denver judge issued alast week, which led to the websites being taken down, activities halted, and funds frozen. A hearing for a preliminary injunction is scheduled for Monday.