Health / Disease

Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is raising the price range at which it plans to sell stock to the public.

The social networking company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it expects to sell its stock for between $34 and $38 per share. That's higher than a previous range ...

Greece could quit the euro, admits Merkel as global markets are plunged into turmoil

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UK Daily Mail | Tens of billions of pounds were wiped off shares yesterday as Angela Merkel conceded for the first time that Greece could be forced to quit the euro.

Nightly News: Feinstein Wants More Aggressive TSA Groping

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:28
Infowars.com | An influential Democrat senator from California, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Diane Feinstein, wants more sexual molestation at America's airports.

Pentagon researching ‘narrative networks’ as way to hijack the brain with false stories

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Natural News | If someone - or some government entity - were able to figure out the science behind what makes people violent, what do you suppose they would do with that knowledge?

PRUDEN: Navigating past the same-sex marriage 'ick factor'

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

This is not what Barack Obama expected for a coming-out party. The "historic" revelation that he is now fully evolved, as from tadpole to frog, and now grooves on same-sex marriage, was meant to be marked with quiet ceremony. No music, no flowers, no kiss, no dancing, not even ...

Figure in brokerage failure out as adviser to EPA

Bradley I. Abelow, a key figure in the collapse of brokerage house MF Global Holdings Ltd., has left his post as chairman of an outside board providing financial advice to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The move comes months after Mr. Abelow, chief operating officer at MF Global, appeared before ...

Bill offers benefits to gay partners

In the wake of President Obama's shift last week in support for gay marriage, a Senate panel announced plans to mark up a bill Wednesday that would extend marital and retirement benefits to federal employees in same-sex domestic partnerships.

This bill is "the next step to achieving equality for the ...

R.I. governor: Recognize out-of-state gay marriages

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's governor declared Monday that the state will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones when it comes to health insurance and a slew of other benefits.

The order signed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Statehouse ceremony directs ...

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Man who cared for famed old tree dies at 103

PORTLAND | Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion, so it is fitting that he will be laid to rest in a coffin made from the tree he made ...

'No jail time' urged in webcam case

TRENTON, N.J. — Several hundred protesters gathered Monday at the New Jersey Statehouse to show support for a former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation and to call attention to what they see as injustices in New Jersey's hate-crime laws.

The rally was in support of Dharun Ravi, a 20-year-old ...

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