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The Twitterverse is swarming with A-list actors, best-selling authors, snarky comedians, and bloviating politicians, displaying varying degrees of tweet talent. What could possibly spell trouble for the social network’s future?
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President Barack Obama told USA Today in an interview published Monday that Republicans led by Mitt Romney have so twisted his record and his words that they may as well be taking on “a fictional Barack Obama.” That message, delivered on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, follows days and weeks of […]
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Vice President Biden’s Missing U-Haul Gets Hauled In By Police
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A new psychology study finds adults are more likely than children to find supernatural explanations for existential questions.
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Creating a potential headache for his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said big businesses in the U.S. were “doing fine” in part because they get advantages from offshore tax havens. His comments echoed similar assertions about the state of big business by President Barack Obama which Romney has criticized. They’re also a reminder that the GOP candidate has kept some of his personal fortune in low tax foreign accounts.
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HURRICANE FEARS BUILD AROUND CONVENTION
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Bookseller Barnes & Noble narrowed its losses for the first fiscal quarter on improved results from its consumer stores group, ignited by the “Fifty Shades of Grey” erotic trilogy.
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Peter Thiel, Facebook’s earliest investor and a board member, has sold the majority of his shares in the social network, as restrictions on insider selling of the stock begin to lift.
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