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Iranian Company Signs $200 Million Deal To... Iran's Petroleum Engineering and Development Co. signed a deal in Tehran on Monday, worth around $200 million, with a domestic company to develop the Changooleh oilfield, which is associated with Iraq....

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Feuding Politicians Put Greece's Rescue Package... Greek politicians were riven by last-minute feuding today as the nation's second euro 130 billion (pounds sterling 108 billion) bailout hung in the balance. Leaders from across the political spectrum have so far refused to sign ...

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UK Shares May Dive 30 Percent in Euro Crisis The London stock market could slump by as much as 30 percent -- with financial shares collapsing by 60 percent -- if the eurozone debt crisis leads to a break-up of the single currency. The warning comes as Greece battles to reach a deal with creditors to ...

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EU Increases Pressure on Greece To Accept... Greece's coalition government on Monday yielded to pressure from the European Union to proceed with the lay-off of 15,000 public sector workers in 2012 as part of extra austerity measures demanded by the country's international creditors....

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Greece Begins Construction of Fence To Curb... Greece said on Monday it had begun to construct a 12.5 kilometer fence along its land border with Turkey, intended to curb illegal immigration. The structure in the northeastern province of Evros -- to be completed by late August or early September -- is to consist of two parallel fences, topped with barbed wire and 25 thermal cameras....

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Obama Imposes New Sanctions Against Iran President Obama issued new sanctions against Iran's banks, including its central bank, for their "deceptive practices" in hiding its dealings of sanctioned parties. "I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly ...

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Catholics Protest Ruling that Health Plans Must... Catholic leaders are outraged over a recent decision by the Obama administration that would require Catholic-affiliated institutions to cover contraceptives and sterilization in their employee health care plans -- a rule they say would violate one of their core beliefs....

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Automakers Try To Build Super Bowl Ad Buzz With the exception of Chrysler, almost every automotive brand in the U.S. has flooded social-media sites with Super Bowl ads in the hope of building buzz before the game. "We've seen a big shift in how marketers approach the Super Bowl," said Tim Calkins, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management....

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Spanish Socialists Bid Farewell to Zapatero Spain's Socialist Party on Friday bid farewell to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, 51, who led the party for over a decade and governed Spain for nearly eight years. The opposition party is to elect a new leader on Saturday as it licks its wounds after a massive defeat to conservatives in regional elections in May and in parliamentary elections in November....

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Spanish PM To Visit South Korea for Nuclear... Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is expected to visit South Korea to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in March, media reported on Saturday. Spanish television network RTVE quoted 'executive sources' as confirming that Rajoy is studying the possibility of using his trip to South Korea, his first Asia trip as the prime minister, as a springboard to visit other countries in Asia....

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Florida Still Losing Ground In Wages Despite... The drop in Florida unemployment masks a troubling trend: The new jobs continue to pay far less than the ones that have been lost. The state added 114,000 jobs last year. But the bulk of them paid on average about 25 percent less than the jobs that disappeared, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis of jobs and industry wage data....

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U.S. Adds 243,000 Jobs In January An "unambiguously good" jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor sent stocks soaring Friday and likely will boost President Obama's political prospects. The economy created 243,000 jobs in January....

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Obama Unveils a Jobs Plan To Train Post-9/11... President Obama on Friday unveiled new initiatives aimed at turning veterans into firefighters, police officers and entrepreneurs. The initiatives, which must be approved by Congress, are aimed specifically at post-9/11 service members....

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Happy Birthday Bob Marley, Legendary Reggae... No other musician is synonymous with reggae or the Rastafari movement as is Bob Marley. Today, the legendary singer would have turned 67. Born Robert Nesta Marley, he was born in Jamaica, and became the first major rock star to come out of a Third World country, according to Rolling Stone magazine....

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Ford Not Laughing at GM's Super Bowl 'Joke'... General Motors said Sunday it stands by its Super Bowl ad that plays on the Mayan calendar's predicted 2012 end of the world in which survival depends on driving a Chevrolet Silverado. The ad, which can be seen at www.youtube.com/Chevrolet or by scrolling to the bottom of this article, ran during the first quarter of the Super Bowl, one of five Chevy spots....

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US Closes Embassy in Syria The U.S. has closed its embassy in Damascus and pulled out its remaining staff, including U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford, the State Department said Monday. "The recent surge in violence, including bombings in Damascus on ...

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Hispanic Jobs Agency Loses Tax-exempt Status,... Esperanza Unida, a job training agency that's been struggling to stay in business on Milwaukee's south side, has had its tax exempt status revoked. And the organization, which also runs a child care center, has been ...

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Mitsubishi Motors To End Production in Europe Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Monday it would end vehicle production in Europe by the end of 2012, shifting its focus to emerging markets. Mitsubishi will become the first major Japanese carmaker to withdraw auto production in Europe....

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Lexus Revs Up Campaign to Launch the All-New GS On the heels of Lexus' first Super Bowl spot, the luxury automaker is launching a multifaceted marketing campaign for its 2013 Lexus GS sport sedan. The bold new GS -- which arrives in showrooms this week -- marks a defining moment in Lexus' history, according to a news release, with major enhancements in performance, design, technology and luxury....

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Small Firms Get Help Exporting to China New Orleans entrepreneur Kyle Berner is taking his all-natural rubber flip-flops to one of the world's fastest-growing markets: China. This year, Berner plans to list his eco-friendly flip-flops on Chinese e-commerce site Tmall.com, joining the ranks of large American companies such as Levi Strauss that already do so....

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Facebook's Cash Flow Must Match Hype To Avoid... There is a basic rule in the stock market: when valuations run far ahead of current revenues, hope is packaged as hype. That is the situation Facebook is in after it filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of shares last week....

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Basic Smartphone Terms The world of smartphones is filled with obscure acronyms and technical jargon. Below are just a few of the terms you may encounter. - Android: A smartphone operating system and software platform created by Google....

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Calamities Driving Population Changes as... By the time a baby born today graduates from high school, whites will no longer be the majority demographic group in Forsyth County, N.C., and Hispanics will replace blacks as the largest minority, according to a demographic report from Winston-Salem State University....

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Le Sueur Biofuel Plan Keeps Inching, Irking Plans for a Le Sueur, Minn., biofuel plant that would convert food-processing and animal wastes continue to plod along amid controversy and confusion. "There are a lot of emotions and uncertainty....

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Tiny Shred of Bankrupt WaMu Emerging to... Nearly three and a half years ago Washington Mutual went bankrupt, dragged down by its shoddy lending practices and fleeing depositors. After regulators seized its banking operations, few thought WaMu had much future -- except as an employment project for bankruptcy lawyers....

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Parties Angle for Position on Immigration Democratic Party members, inserting their voice into an immigration discussion that recently has focused on the policies of the Republican presidential candidates, reiterated their belief that President Obama has the most sensible immigration plan and is still the best choice for Hispanic voters....

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Discovery Familia Dresses in Red for February This February, American Heart Month, Discovery Familia joins this important cause by launching the "Escucha tu Corazon" (Listen To Your Heart) initiative to raise awareness and educate Hispanic women about heart disease, including their risk factors....

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10 Facts About Hispanics in Colorado The following is being released by the Hispanic Leadership Network, an advocacy action group focused on engaging the Hispanic community on center-right policies: -- Colorado's Hispanic population is 1,038,687 or 20.65 percent of the state's total population (2010 U.S....

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Sauteing With the Stars: Celebrities Cook Up a... It's as natural a pairing as steak and baked potato. Americans love their celebrities, and Americans love to eat. So why not celebrity cookbooks? Except ... Eva Longoria desperately hawking Tex-Mex recipes? Coolio ...

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Philippines Quake, 7 Dead, 29 Missing A powerful earthquake struck the central Philippines' Visayas island chain Monday, killing at least seven people and leaving 29 missing, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the magnitude of the offshore temblor at 6.7 but the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs) measured it at magnitude-6.9....

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Manufacturing a Star of an Upbeat Jobs Report Last week's surprisingly strong jobs report spotlighted healthy employment gains in manufacturing -- an industry that was expected to be hampered by Europe's economic downturn this year. So far, the nation's factories are defying the gloomy forecasts, adding 50,000 jobs in January -- their strongest showing in a year -- on top of 32,000 in December, the Labor Department said Friday....

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Nasdaq Hits Highest Level Since Dot-com Bubble... Spurred by a fifth straight month of solid job growth and the prospects of an initial public offering for Facebook, investors sent tech stocks soaring on Friday, leading the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index to its highest closing mark since the dot-com crash of 2000. The Nasdaq rose 46 points, or 1.6 percent, Friday to close at 2905.7....

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Pinterest.com Is the Next Big Thing Watch out, Facebook; you've got new competition. According to money.cnn.com, social-media site Pinterest.com is now driving more referral traffic on the Web than Google+, YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn combined....

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Greece on 'Knife Edge' as Debt Talks Stall Crisis talks on a debt deal for Greece among the three leaders of parties supporting the coalition government have been suspended. After five hours of discussions, Lucas Papademos, the Greek prime minister, said the talks would continue on Monday, saying that they had however reached an agreement on many issues....

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General Motors Still Thinking Big General Motors is spending more than $500 million on its Arlington assembly plant over the next 18 months, indicating that GM officials believe there's still a bright future for the large sport utility vehicles built at the plant....

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Data Show Flat Economic Activity in California The California economy was flat in November, despite a job market in recent months that has shown signs of steady improvement, according to an index released Thursday by Dallas-based Comerica Bank. ...

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Legal Fund Asks Judge to Reinstate Ethnic Studies The federal judge overseeing TUSD's desegregation case has been asked to reinstate Mexican American Studies courses. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed the request on behalf of the Latino plaintiffs in the Tucson Unified School District's decades-old desegregation case to bring its schools into racial balance....

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Non-Profit's Funds Fueling Super PAC A group aligned with the Tea Party has funneled more than $1.3 million in anonymous contributions to a super PAC working aggressively to unseat Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and other congressional veterans, raising alarms among some watchdogs that these outside groups are emerging as a new avenue for secret political money....

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Dinner To Mark End of Iraq War With U.S. forces still fighting in Afghanistan, the Obama administration has chosen to mark the end of the Iraq War with something more modest than a ticker-tape parade -- a state-dinner-like event at the White House later this month feting a select group of combat veterans and their spouses or guests....

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Poll: Obama Would Beat Romney in Election President Obama would defeat Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general election match-up, a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated. Obama leads the Republican former Massachusetts governor 52 percent to 43 percent among all Americans and 51 percent to 45 percent among registered voters, the poll released Sunday night indicated....

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Politics 2012: Rocky Mountain High After swings through New England, the South and points West, the four main candidates vying to be the Republican challenger to President Obama gear up for caucuses in three states Tuesday, Colorado being the largest....

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Mars Surface Too Dry for Life Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has been in a "super-drought" lasting 600 million years, British researchers say. Scientists at Imperial College London said they based that assertion on ...

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Have a Game Plan for a Winning Super Bowl Monday For most people, Super Bowl Sunday tends to be a night when normal diet and sleep routines are punted right out the window, positioning themselves for a tougher than usual Monday morning. While osteopathic physicians (DOs) promote living a healthy lifestyle by eating nutritious foods and getting plenty of rest, temporary indulgences shouldn't fumble a normally healthy lifestyle....

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Ben Gazzara, Actor In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,'... Ben Gazzara, an actor known for pushing the envelope, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81. He died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said, according to the New York Times. ...

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National Wear Red Day Draws Attention to Top... Today was National Wear Red Day. Which is why you may have noticed lots of people wearing red. Or not. We didn't see that many. Which is a pity, because it's for a good cause. Feb....

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Daniel Radcliffe Says He Was Drunk In Many... In a new interview by Heat World, an England-based celebrity magazine, Danielle Radcliffe has admitted to being sloshed during "Harry Potter" filming....

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Spain Restructures Banks, Cuts Bankers' Salaries The Spanish government Friday approved a bank reform aimed at injecting credit into the stagnant economy and restoring investor confidence, including heavy cuts into the salaries of top bankers. Executives of banks receiving funds from the bank restructuring fund FROB may not make more than 600,000 euros ($780,000) annually, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos announced....

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Health Care Law Defended Local mothers, female business owners and students are the latest groups being targeted by the White House's campaign to promote the Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Tampa on ...

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Warm Weather Keeps Ski Resorts Business From... Last winter, Camelback Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania distributed 1.5 million coupons for ski lift discounts. What a difference a temperate winter makes. "We have over 3 million coupons in the marketplace," said Megan McHugh, spokeswoman for Camelback, a recreation complex in Tannersville....

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Komen Restores Planned Parenthood Funding The breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Friday that it was reversing its unpopular decision to de-fund breast health services provided through the women's health provider Planned Parenthood....

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Growing Kentucky Hispanic Population Spurs... Ann Handy of Bowling Green has studied Spanish for years. It's a hobby, and as a parishioner at a church with a growing Hispanic crowd, it has helped her form relationships. Now, a free Spanish class at St....

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California Man Gets US Citizenship at Age 84 Think you're too old to pursue your dreams? San Rafael, Calif., resident Roberto Borge, who will turn 85 this month, became a U.S. citizen in January after more than two decades in Marin. "Even as a youngster I admired the United States," said Borge, speaking in Spanish....

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Houston-Havana Flight a First, Not a Trend The first flight from Houston to Cuba in more than half a century took off from Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday morning, but it's not the start of a trend -- at least for now. The 80 passengers aboard the Boeing 737 asked airport and charter officals not to release information about them....

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Unique Human Smuggling Scheme Hides Immigrants... Five Los Angeles-area residents have been indicted for operating a human smuggling scheme that in many cases involved specially-built compartments under the hoods of cars. The operation relied largely on non-Spanish speaking African-Americans to transport loads of illegal aliens from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Los Angeles area....

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Cuban Oil Rig Wouldn't Meet US Standards Despite announcing last month that the Scarabeo 9 oil rig now off Cuba "generally" meets acceptable safety standards, federal officials acknowledged this week that results of their inspection of the platform would have prohibited it from drilling in U.S....

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Cuban Boxing Legend Teofilo Stevenson Narrowly... Cuba's three-time Olympic boxing champion, Teofilo Stevenson, was released from a hospital Wednesday after treatment for a blood clot near his heart, which was discovered during a routine examination....

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Positive Jobs Report Propels Indexes An upbeat jobs report propelled U.S. stock indexes to dizzying highs Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 156.82 points or 1.23 percent to close the trading session at 12,862.23....

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GOP Decries Possible Taliban Release A proposal to release senior Taliban from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has drawn sharp rebuke from several congressional Republicans. The Obama administration proposal -- still in its infancy but revealed ...

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Employment Gains Aren't Attracting Believers Yet Employment statistics and the jobless rate have improved over the past several months. These usually point to a rebounding economy, but there's still considerable doubt over just what these numbers really mean....

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Romney Says Obama Is Slowing Economic Recovery The reality of horse-race politics is that good news for one campaign is bad for another. So Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, gave little acknowledgment to the good national economic news on the labor market and instead said President Barack Obama was slowing the nation's economic recovery....

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Chrysler's Big Super Bowl Ad To Feature Clint... Ferris Bueller, Darth Vader, body-painted models, dogs, all-star celebrities, hipster vampires and CGI-aliens are just some of the colorful characters scheduled to touch down during the Super Bowl telecast Sunday....

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GOP Senators To Challenge Recess Appointments Thirty-nine Republican U.S. senators said they would join a court challenge to four of President Obama's recess appointments, charging they're unconstitutional. Republicans maintain Obama overstepped his authority when he appointed ...

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Obama To Urge $6.5 Billion To Spur Veteran Hiring President Barack Obama proposed $6.5 billion in programs to stimulate U.S. veteran hiring as first responders and land preservationists. Obama, during a speech at a firehouse in Arlington, Va., proposed $486 ...

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Tracy Morgan's Mom Begs for Help, Morgan Says... ...

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$3 Billion WWII Shipwreck (VIDEO) Shipwreck hunter Greg Brooks says he's found a sunken ship containing $3 billion in platinum, but the British government doubts it....

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Hispanic Jobless Rate Tumbles to 10.5 Percent The unemployment rate for Hispanics dropped to 10.5 percent in January, down from 11 percent in December. The rate has now dropped 1.7 percentage points since the Hispanic jobless rate peaked at 13.2 percent in November 2010....

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Nick Carter Dedicates NYC Concert To Sister Leslie Last night, Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter held his first live performance since sister Leslie died earlier this week and he dedicated his song "Falling Down" to her. Leslie, 25, suffered an apparent overdose....

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Britney Spears To Guest Star on 'ModernFamily?' The Britney Spears bandwagon is at it again. Her fans nabbed her a guest spot on Fox's hit TV series, "Glee," and now they are working on getting her on "Modern Family," after the pop princess said she loved the show....

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Madonna Video Released, Features Nicki Minaj... New music from Madonna--finally, it's here. The song, "Give Me All Your Luvin'" features M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj. No other pop star can touch Madonna. People can compare all they want, but the ride she has had in the music industry was one she created....

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Roseanne Barr for President? Comedian Files as... Roseanne Barr wasn't kidding back in August when she told Jay Leno she was running for president....

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Willow Smith Whips Her Hair Back and Forth No... Willow Smith, the daughter of A-List celebrities Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, has shaved her locks. Which is weird because the tiny powerhouse's single, the catchy "Whip My Hair Back and Forth," launched her career....

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Do You Know How Your iPad Is Made? Recent revelations about the deplorable working conditions at an Apple factory in China provide a cautionary tale about globalization and consumerism. On Jan. 26, the New York Times ran a front-page article that exposed some of the facts of life within Apple's Foxconn Technology factory in Chengdu, China....

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Potential for Wind Turbines Off Jersey Shore... The potential for wind turbines off the coast of New Jersey passed one more hurdle Thursday, when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that several "priority areas" in the Mid-Atlantic had passed an initial environmental review....

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Women Advocates Decry Komen Move The annual Planned Parenthood luncheon in Tampa, Fla., couldn't have been more timely. Typically, the buzz is about reproductive rights, advances in medicine for women or opportunities to better deliver services....

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Honda Sales Jump in January If January is any indication, employees at Lincoln, Ala.'s Honda auto plant can expect plenty of work in the coming months. The Japanese-based automaker reported an 8.8 percent boost in U.S. sales in January compared to the same month last year....

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Auto Firms Bank on Super Bowl Ad Buzz Airtime in the precious moments away from the action during Sunday's Super Bowl costs more than ever this year, with the average 30-second spot going for $3.5 million. That works out to more than $116,000 per second....

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IP Doubled Its Earnings in 2011, Plans To... International Paper plans to spend around $1.5 billion on capital projects this year, many of them aimed at cutting energy consumption, and expects modest growth in foreign demand. U.S. growth is still depressed by an economy that "is recovering, but far from fully recovered," said John Faraci, CEO of the Memphis-based paper and packaging company, during a Thursday morning earnings call....

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Is Justin Bieber in Miami? Hundreds of Teen... Justin Bieber appears to be visiting Miami-Dade -- or so believe hundreds of teenager girls who have camped out outside The Hit Factory recording studio in North Miami Beach. Bieber is said to be at the studio recording his upcoming album Believe....

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Planned Parenthood Sees Unexpected Rise in... After the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced it would no longer provide Planned Parenthood chapters with funding for breast cancer screenings, there has been an unexpected development -- an uptick in individual donations to Planned Parenthood....

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Honda To Invest $98 Million in Plant, Create... Honda will invest $98 million in its engine plant in Hamilton, Ohio, and create 150 new jobs in the state as part of a plan to become the "fuel efficiency leader in every segment" of the North American auto industry, company leaders said Wednesday....

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Passat Boosts Sales of Volkswagen Brand Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tenn.-made Passat helped fuel a big gain in U.S. January sales for the German automaker as overall industry numbers for the month were better than analysts expected. "I don't see a lot of downside risk for the industry," said Jesse Toprak, TrueCar.com's vice president of industry trends, about the rest of 2012....

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US Hispanic Chamber Issues Statement on January... President & CEO of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce , Javier Palomarez, today issued the following statement after the release of the January jobs report: "Today's report indicates that 243,000 jobs were added to the U.S....

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America Ferrera To Speak in Boston America Ferrera, the award-winning actress who is best known for her portrayal of Betty Suarez in the hit comedy "Ugly Betty," will speak at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston on Thursday, Feb....

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Komen Says Grant Cuts 'Mischaracterized' The founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure said Thursday that there had been a "gross mischaracterization" about the group's controversial decision to stop funding breast exams at Planned Parenthood....

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Weyerhaeuser Reports 4th-Quarter, Full Year... Weyerhaeuser Co. today reported net earnings of $65 million for the fourth quarter, or 12 cents per diluted share, on net sales from continuing operations of $1.6 billion. This compares with net earnings of $171 million, or 32 cents per diluted share, on net sales from continuing operations of $1.5 billion for the same period last year....

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Matter Is Different Outside Solar System NASA says a spacecraft gathering data on material outside the solar system found matter out there doesn't look like the same stuff our solar system is made of. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer methodically measures samples of particles that come into the solar system from far outside, the agency reported in a release Tuesday....

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Top 10 Facts About Hispanic Voters in Nevada The following is released today by the Hispanic Leadership Network: -- Nevada's total Hispanic population is 716,501, or 26.5% of the state's population (2010 U.S. Census). -- Nevada has the 5th largest Hispanic population nationwide (Pew Hispanic Center, 2011)....

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Honda To Resume Production in Thailand Next Month Japanese automaker Honda will resume production at its Ayutthaya assembly plant, north of Bangkok, in March, a top company executive said Wednesday. Pitak Pruittisarikorn, executive vice president of Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co....

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Peyton Manning Medically Cleared to Play Football Peyton Manning took another step closer to returning to the field in 2012, according to reports late Thursday night. According to ESPN's NFL reporter Chris Mortensen, who cited sources, Manning has been medically cleared to play in 2012....

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Economy Jumps With Jobs In January The U.S. economy took a solid jump forward in January with the addition of 230,000 jobs, the Department of Labor said Friday. So, why are so many people still worried? Well, this is easy. In the first place, 230,000 is not 7.5 million jobs, which would put the country back to pre-recession comforts....

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El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce... The El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will host an event called Southwest, Conexion Facil! For about an hour, between 25 to 50 guests will speed-network. The event will be at 11:30 a.m. today at Verizon Call Center, 11601 Pellicano, Suite B-18. The cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Information: Richard Ornelas, 566-4066 or e-mail at rornelas@ephcc.org ...

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Summit's Aim Is On Local Latino Issues The city of Tampa today will host the next in a series of nationwide sessions held by White House officials who are seeking input on issues important to Hispanic communities. The Hispanic Community Action Summit is billed as an opportunity for leaders in the Latino community to speak with decision-makers in the White House....

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Latino Group Expands Efforts to Preserve... An organization led by Latinos in five states, including Nevada, wants a new, long-term study of the Colorado River basin to look beyond sustaining a healthy waterway and take into account the basin's Latino heritage....

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Obama Introduces Agenda to Foster Small... President Barack Obama is renewing his push to spur small business job growth, outlining a set of tax cuts and incentives aimed at entrepreneurs. But several private reports released this week show hiring among small businesses slowed in January....

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Bubble or Bonanza? Facebook IPO Raises... Facebook's long-awaited filing Wednesday for an initial public stock offering marked a new era on the internet, establishing the eight-year-old company as the platform to wrest the web revolution from the clutches of Google....

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Profitero Named IBM Global Entrepreneur of the... IBM today named Profitero the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year and winner of its SmartCamp competition for startup companies. Profitero analyzes competitor pricing data, offering retailers new levels of insight to help them maximize profits by adjusting pricing and merchandising strategies....

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Facebook: A Startling Tech Trajectory At last, Facebook has embarked on the path toward its IPO, the ultimate Silicon Valley rite of passage and the end of a company's startup phase. That makes now a good time to stop and marvel at how far Facebook has come in the eight years since a Harvard student got the crazy notion that he could slap together some code and build a better social network....

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Facebook IPO Means Big Business for Thousands... Patrick Salyer doesn't work at Facebook. He doesn't own any of its stock. But he's one of thousands of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world who stand to make a lot of money when the Menlo Park social network goes public later this year....

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On Social Media at Work? Companies' Policies... Maybe it doesn't rank with the first time man lit up the cave with fire, but Susan Spradley vividly recalls the day voice mail came to her law office. "We all thought it was the coolest thing to have," said Spradley, a defense attorney at GrayRobinson in Orlando....

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US Unemployment Rate Falls to 8.3 Percent The US unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent in January, from 8.5 percent the previous month, the Labour Department said Friday. The figure has been falling since August, and now stands at its lowest level in nearly three years....

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Facebook Outlines IPO's Perils Facebook's stock may not be your BFF. The social-networking giant on Wednesday spelled out shareholder risks in its proposed initial public offering. It hopes to raise at least $5 billion by selling shares to the public....

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US Unemployment Falls to 8.3 Percent, 243,000... The US unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 per cent in January, from 8.5 per cent the previous month, the Labour Department said Friday. The figure has been falling since August, and now stands at its lowest level in nearly three years....

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