The same degenerative brain disease found in football players and boxers has been found in veterans exposed to roadside bombs, a finding with potentially profound implications.
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New York Times
OptionsGreece Teeters Ahead of New Vote
Amid warnings of the possibility of bank runs, state television said June 17 would be the date for a new round of elections.
Read more.Riot Police Break Up Antigovernment Encampment in Moscow
The crackdown occurred as an unpredictable political situation continued to unfurl in the early days of Vladimir V. Putin’s new term as president.
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OptionsDe Klerk repudiates apartheid
Under fire for his comments on apartheid, former South African President F.W. de Klerk clarified his position again Wednesday, saying that he repudiates the system of racial segregation as ...
Read more.Greece sets poll date amid bank fears
Greece will hold new elections on June 17, state media reports, as Greeks pull hundreds of millions of euros out the banking system amid fears of a eurozone exit.
Read more.Mobster's body exhumed from Vatican
The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl&aposs disappearance.
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OptionsRecords Show Former Gov. Charlie Crist Thought Jim Greer Was Trying To Extort Him
To former Gov. Charlie Crist from good friend and confidante Jim Greer was ominous-sounding:
"Listen I just wanted to call and tell you something as a man, not like these ...
Read more.Obama, Boehner Talk Debt Ceiling In Meeting
WASHINGTON -- Apparently healed from the trauma caused by last summer's debt-ceiling showdown, House Republicans and the White House have begun an eight-month long standoff over the next debt-ceiling fight ...
Read more.Los Angeles Adopts 'responsible Banking' Ordinance - Latimes.com
Joining a growing number of municipalities, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday adopted a "responsible banking" ordinance that will require banks doing business with the city to disclose detailed ...
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TechCrunch
OptionsViacom Gives Up Fight Against Time Warner Cable, Adds Channels to TWC iPad App
Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to its ...
Read more.How Many Daily Downloads Does It Take To Reach The Top Of The App Store?
It’s hard to underestimate how important ranking in Apple’s top 25 in the iTunes store is for mobile app developers. After all, the top 25 is probably the ...
Read more.Third Pivot’s The Charm? Events Site Ravn Becomes Flash Sales Site Touch Of Modern
No one ever called a limit on the number pivots a company can do, right? So here’s the latest at a company we’ve been watching for a while ...
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OptionsDavy Jones dies; heartthrob of the Monkees
Davy Jones, the velvet-voiced heartthrob of the made-for-TV 1960s pop band the Monkees, which briefly eclipsed the Beatles in record sales with songs such as “Last Train to Clarksville” and ...
Read more.The biggest Pinocchios of 2011
Fact checkers are under assault!
Before we present our list of the biggest Pinocchios of the year, we would like to address the torrent of criticism addressed at fact checkers ...
Read more.Barack Obama: the ‘food-stamp president’?
“We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food stamp president in American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of ...
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U.S. News Headlines - Yahoo! News
OptionsVirginia, Florida have most well-read cities in U.S.: poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read ...
Read more.Father of Washington's Josh Powell guilty of voyeurism
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The father of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his two young sons in a fiery blast at his Washington state home in February, was found guilty of ...
Read more.Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
(Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage. Overturning ...
Read more.A "gold rush" for Maine's baby eel fishermen
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - George Forni will spend most of next week holed up in his home in Sullivan, Maine, guarded by a new surveillance system and armed with a stun ...
Read more.Lawyers for ex-Senator John Edwards rest case
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The defense rested its case on Wednesday in the federal trial of ex-Senator John Edwards on charges he used presidential campaign finances to hide his then-pregnant ...
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TEDTalks (video)
OptionsTED: Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel (2012)
What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is ...
Read more.TED: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias - Tali Sharot (2012)
Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can ...
Read more.TED: Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found - Renny Gleeson (2012)
Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error ...
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Wired Top Stories
OptionsHands-On: Flipboard iOS App Adds Audio to Your Social Magazine
Flipboard is a graphically stunning social media aggregator that organizes your friends? tweets, posts, and links into a magazine-like spread. But now that experience isn't just visual: In an ...
Read more.China Flies New Stealth Fighter as Problems Plague U.S. Jets
The second copy of China's stealth fighter prototype has just flown at a research facility in the city of Chengdu. The first flight of the J-20 Mighty Dragon with ...
Read more.Dell Targets SMBs With Boomi-based Cloud Packs
Fresh on the heels of rolling out its virtual desktop Simplified DaaS , Dell is bolstering its cloud services offerings again with Integration Packs, "... a point-to-point integration solution ... that enables automatic ...
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Business Insider
OptionsChristian School Claims It Axed Teacher For Having Premarital Sex
A Christian school claiming it sacked a teacher for having premarital sex will have to defend itself before a jury against pregnancy discrimination claims.
On Wednesday, the 11th Circuit Court ...
Read more.The Jury's Out On Whether US Consumers Are Ready To Go Cashless
With MasterCard, PayPal and Visa hopping aboard the digital wallet bandwagon, you'd think the service was going mainstream. For months, finance experts have been saying saying it was, but ...
Read more.WATCH: An Absolutely Horrifying Ferrari Crash In Singapore Leaves 3 Dead
The Ferrari 599 GTO is one of the fastest cars that was ever built by Ferrari. But there is a time and a place to max it out.
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National Geographic News
OptionsPictures: "Body Jars," Cliff Coffins Are Clues to Unknown Tribe
Perched on precarious cliff ledges, centuries-old log coffins and "body jars" are the only known traces of an unknown Cambodian tribe
Read more.Best Night-Sky Pictures of 2012 Named
A holiday comet, Icelandic auroras, and the Milky Way feature among the winning shots from the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.
Read more.Prehistoric "Panda" Found in Spain—Giant Panda Has European Roots?
A small fossil bear recently identified in Spain suggests China's giant panda has European roots, a new study says.
Read more.Space Pictures This Week: Supermoon, Solar Flare, More
A supermoon looms, a solar flare erupts, and night-shining clouds glow in this week's best space pictures.
Read more.Mother's Day's Dark History
Born of war, Mother's Day grew to horrify its own mother, whose fight to fix the holiday "cost her everything, financially and physically."
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SI.com
OptionsKings lead West finals 2-0
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Los Angeles Kings took the hard hits, some of them questionable, and kept rolling.
Read more.Spurs roll past Clips in West semi opener
SAN ANTONIO (AP) The San Antonio Spurs had just taken Game 1, and Manu Ginobili didn't want to hear another word about winning 15 in a row or not ...
Read more.Heat struggle late as Pacers even series
This time, LeBron and D-Wade fell short. Despite 52 points from Miami's two stars, the Pacers held on for a gutsy 78-75 road victory to square their Eastern semifinal ...
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OptionsChampion Giants unveil Super Bowl XLVI ring
The New York Giants unveiled their Super Bowl XLVI ring Wednesday, which also pays homage to all four of the franchise's championship teams.
Read more.Pacers' Bird named NBA Executive of the Year
Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird was voted the NBA's Executive of the Year on Wednesday, becoming the first person to win that award, plus the MVP and Coach of ...
Read more.Suggs, Peters could forfeit millions for injuries
Eagles tackle Jason Peters and Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, two All-Pro players who have suffered offseason Achilles injuries, may lose millions because both fall under the "Nonfootball injury" provision of ...
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Reuters: Sports News
OptionsLakers' Ebanks and Bynum each fined by the league
(Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers players Devin Ebanks and Andrew Bynum were each fined by the National Basketball Association for separate violations, the league said on Wednesday.
Read more.New York to host 2013 MLB All-Star Game
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at New York's Citi Field, marking the second time in five years the city will enjoy the economic boost ...
Read more.Aching Federer makes up for lost time
ROME (Reuters) - An aching Roger Federer made up for lost time on Wednesday as he saw off Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 6-3 6-4 to reach the third round of the ...
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TMZ.com
Options'American Idol' -- We Really, Really Want Jennifer Lopez Back
Jennifer Lopez isn't sure if she'll come back for a third season of "American Idol," but the big cheese on the show says he wants her back in ...
Read more.'Workaholics' Billboard -- Fully Erected in Hollywood
The new season of "Workaholics" is already facing hard times ... and it hasn't even aired yet.The good people over at Comedy Central just put the above billboard up ...
Read more.Kim Kardashian -- Skechers Got My Ass In Order
Kim Kardashian doesn't care WHAT the Federal Trade Commission says ... she says Skechers worked for her, and THAT'S why she became the company's pitch person.Kim made ...
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