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BOSTON — The first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket has died. Geraldine Ferraro was 75.
Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 [...]
DAKAR, Senegal — At least 700,000 people have fled their homes in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, to escape the increasing violence and collapsing economy stemming from the nation’s political crisis, the United Nations said Friday.
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More than 27,000 people are officially dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11th.
According to the National Police Agency, 9,811 people are confirmed dead as of 9 PM on Thursday.
The agency says it has received reports of 17,541 people missing.
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The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. [...]
Republicans and GOP-leaning independents are more likely to support Mike Huckabee than anyone else in the wide-open field of potential Republican presidential candidates, according to a Gallup poll out Friday.
Gallup listed a dozen potential candidates and asked which one respondents wanted to see as their party’s nominee next year. Huckabee came out on top [...]
NEW DELHI — The billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett capped off a weeklong visit to India by doing one of the things he does best, after investing — doling out folksy sayings and sensible advice to an appreciative crowd.
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(Reuters) – The early prison release on Friday of a man who fatally shot a high school valedictorian has prompted a public outcry and plans for protests against Mississippi’s sentencing laws.
Joseph Burton Goff served just eight years of a 20-year sentence for manslaughter, shaving off some of his prison time by [...]
(Reuters) – Samuel Curtis Johnson III, a billionaire heir of the SC Johnson & Son fortune, has been charged with repeated sexual assault of his stepdaughter, officials said on Friday.
The child is now 15, and the alleged assault went on for “several years,” according to Racine County District Attorney Michael Nieskes.
Johnson, [...]
Tokyo (CNN) — Authorities in Japan raised the prospect Friday of a likely breach in the all-important containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a potentially ominous development in the race to prevent a large-scale release of radiation.
Contaminated water likely seeped through the containment vessel protecting from [...]
But in more recent years, archaeologists have found more and more traces of even earlier people with a less refined technology inhabiting North America and spreading as far south as Chile.
And now clinching evidence in the mystery of the early peopling of America [...]
Google has quietly launched its own full-length online magazine, a quarterly publication whose aim is to create a “breathing space in a busy world.”
The first edition of Think Quarterly, based out of the U.K., is a 68-page dive into the world of data and its impact on business. The first thing most people will [...]
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British-born child actor Elizabeth Taylor arrives in America at the age of seven. Archive Photos/Getty Images
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor has died, NBC News confirms
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The buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners is weighing a possible acquisition of BJ’s Wholesale Club, the company said in a securities filing on Tuesday.
The disclosure follows the company’s announcement last month that it was exploring a sale of the company and had hired Morgan Stanley to run the sale.
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Americans are divided in their views of how President Barack Obama is handling the crisis in Libya, two polls conducted since a coalition of international forces began attacking the country late last week suggest.
Half of those surveyed for a poll released Tuesday morning by CBS News, as well as half of those questioned for a [...]
If approved by regulators, the merger would leave just three major cellular carriers in the United States, a development that consumer advocates warn could eventually lead to higher prices for a wide variety of services. For this reason the deal is likely to attract close scrutiny in Washington. [...]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was hospitalized today in Rome, the Italian news agency ANSA said.
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Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the southern Syrian city of Deraa calling for greater freedoms.
The march follows the funeral of a man killed on Sunday, when security forces opened fire on protesters.
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Big Love concluded its five-season run last night, with a bang and then a whimper. The closing moments of the show addressed pretty much every plot thread from the last season, but in a way so pat it took some of the fun out of the finale. Heather married Ben in spite of his naming [...]
So much for quiet Sundays. AT&T announced today that it’s agreed to acquire T-Mobile US from Deutsche Telekom, a merger which, if completed, will make it by far the country’s biggest wireless phone company. It’ll also leave us with three national carriers: AT&T, archrival Verizon Wireless, and the much smaller Sprint.
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