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The Justice Department is expected to file criminal charges against at least one big bank in connection with the interest-rate manipulation scandal. This is welcome news.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/opinion/a-week-in-the-life-of-libor.html
The White House signaled today that President Obama, who has seldom shown much appetite to fight with the powerful National Rifle Association, did not intend to make a push for stricter gun controls in the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colo. “The president’s views…
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Headlines have suggested that people who spend a lot of time sitting were in mortal danger. But it could be that people who spend more time sitting are less healthy to begin with.
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Mind your manners and be careful what you tweet. Athletes competing in the London Olympic Games have been given a laundry list of rules to guide their online behavior.
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Gay rights and marriage-equality activists, not surprisingly, were outraged by Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s statements to Baptist Press, which illustrated the company’s stance more explicitly than it had done before.
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The man accused of a shooting at a movie theater would have had a tougher time buying an AR-15 rifle legally eight years ago, when it was subject to federal restrictions.
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University of Colorado officials were looking Sunday into whether James Holmes used his position in a graduate program to collect hazardous materials, but school officials weren’t saying whether they knew the suspect in a movie theater massacre was anything more than a hard-working student.
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Tom Cruise may have settled his divorce with Katie Holmes, but curiosity surrounding Scientology still swirls. After an enigmatic teaser was released for Paul Thomas…
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will receive up to $100 million in compensation, stock, bonus and retention awards over the next five years.
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A former financial consultant-turned-government witness was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation after prosecutors credited him with helping convict a pair of Wall Street titans on insider trading charges.
Anil Kumar had pleaded guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and other charges and agreed to cooperate…
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