| Facebook CEO Zuckerberg turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift Posted:  Don't let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.
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| Secret Service sex scandal hearings set Posted:  The chairmen of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees leading a probe of the Secret Service said on Sunday that they plan to hold a May 23 Congressional hearing on the prostitution scandal that rocked the agency in April. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan and Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Dept. of [...]
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| Newsweek cover: Obama ‘first gay president’ Posted:  It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president." The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo. Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black [...]
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| Report: 3 JPMorgan executives to resign Posted:  Three high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase are expected to leave their jobs this week after a trading blunder cost the bank $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.The Journal, citing ...
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| Official: 49 bodies left on Mexico highway Posted:  Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appeared to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.
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| AP Exclusive: Drawing focuses on Iran's nuke work Posted:  A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber.
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| Top aide to Florida governor resigns amid scrutiny Posted:  A top aide to Florida Governor Rick Scott has resigned after a recent flurry of media reports focused on his alleged steering of state government contracts to longtime acquaintances or friends. Steve MacNamara, Scott's chief of staff and a seasoned Tallahassee insider, sent a letter of resignation to the governor on Saturday. "It has been a pleasure and honor serving you," he said. "But the recent media attention I have been receiving has begun to interfere with the day-to-day operations of this office. ...
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| Slideshow: Mother's Day in prison Posted:  Cori Walters, 32, (R) hugs her daughter Hannah Walters, 6, at California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, California May 5, 2012. An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, brings children in California to visit their mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles (161 km) from their children. Picture taken May 5, 20 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS PICTURE 13 OF 28 FOR PACKAGE 'MOTHER'S DAY BEHIND BARS' |
| John Edwards' mistress led a tabloid-grade life Posted:  Rielle Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history.
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| Calif. FBI agent missing, possibly armed, suicidal Posted:  Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal.
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| Bloomberg: N.C. marriage vote sets back civil rights Posted:  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week's gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country.
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| George W. Bush consoles Joe Biden on ‘SNL’ (VIDEO) Posted:  Last week's White House drama surrounding gay marriage was, predictably, the focus of "Saturday Night Live's" opening sketch on Saturday. Joe Biden--played by Jason Sudeikis--complains about being overshadowed by President Barack Obama. "It's not fair--I was the first one who said it should be legal," Biden says to Obama. "But now you're the one getting [...]
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| Legendary bass player 'Duck' Dunn dies in Tokyo Posted:  Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," ''Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died Sunday at 70.
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| Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul Posted:  Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. Maulvi Arsala Rahmani was one of the most senior members on Afghanistan's High Peace Council, set up by President Hamid Karzai two years ago to liaise with insurgents. "He (Rahmani) was stuck in heavy traffic when another car beside him opened fire," said General Mohammad Zahir, head of the investigations unit for Kabul police. ...
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| Syrian forces kill 7 civilians in rural attack: activists Posted:  AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by tanks shot dead seven civilians when they overran a rebellious Sunni Muslim village west of the city of Hama on Sunday, activists' organizations said, in a crackdown on the rural epicenter of the 14-month anti-government revolt. In neighboring Lebanon, three people were killed when fighting erupted in the city of Tripoli between members of the Alawite minority loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and members of the Sunni majority. ...
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| Man attempts to set world record, fist-pumping 17 hours straight Posted: A 34-year-old unemployed man from Ohio attempted to set a Guinness World Record over the weekend by fist pumping for 17 hours straight. James Peterson began the attempt on Friday morning, according to the Akron Beacon Journal, and was scheduled to end at 3 a.m. local time Saturday. Peterson, a self-described fist-pumping "veteran," was accompanied [...] |
| Greek efforts for coalition founder; new elections possible Posted:  Critical talks to form a governing coalition in crisis-struck Greece have foundered once more. The head of a small left-wing party that is in a kingmaker position says no deal has been reached.Democratic ...
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| Dalai Lama: China may have plotted to poison me Posted:  LONDON (Reuters) - Tibet's Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing, he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. China has ruled Tibet since 1950, and the Chinese government has repeatedly accused exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, of stoking dissent against its rule. The spiritual leader fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising. Last year he was warned that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women to kill him, the Sunday Telegraph reported. ...
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