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Sen. Mitt Romney has seized on a hot Southern California housing market. The Utah senator and former Replublican presidential nominee sold his 11,000-square-foot La Jolla mansion, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Romney announced the sale during a virtual discussion with the Salt Lake Chamber, Utah’s largest business association. No price was announced for the beachfront home at 311 Dunemere Drive, but the property was assessed at $15.3 million, according to the report. Romney and his wife Ann paid $12 million in 2008 for the property, which at the time included a 3,000-square-foot home. The couple demolished it and built the...

PARIS (Reuters) - Armed French anti-terrorist police detained nine Islamic militants on Monday suspected of plotting attacks in France, a judicial source said. The dawn raids in the Yvelines and Eure regions outside Paris were carried out as Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was about to unveil tough new anti-terrorism laws, designed as France's response to bomb attacks in London on July 7. Police searched several premises and the suspects were taken to the headquarters of the domestic intelligence agency DST for questioning. They can be held four days, then must be placed under formal investigation by a judge or released....