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U.S. Senate to consider new Iran sanctions on Thursday - 114 Minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will ask the U.S. Senate to approve a new package of oil and economic sanctions on Thursday aimed at pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear program,

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Wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. found dead at NY home - 3 Hours ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, was found dead on Wednesday at her home in a New York City suburb, an officer at the Westchester County Medical Examiner's

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The Voice dumps Carmen - 55 Minutes ago

The Voice producers have ruled out recalling a losing contestant after Carmen Smith left for breaching the "spirit of the show". Producers made Smith, who was on Joel Madden's team, leave after deeming

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Chinese in bold call for official's removal
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Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
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Chicago braces for violence at NATO summit
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US judge blocks indefinite detention of Americans
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Greek Stimulus Is an Option, Merkel Says
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Ratko Mladic's genocide trial begins
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Authorities: Trooper gets text seeking illegal buy - 73 Minutes ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska â?? Two women face possible charges after authorities say a text message seeking the illegal purchase of alcohol was errantly sent to an Alaska State Trooper. Troopers spokeswoman Megan

Egyptian presidential candidate sounds off on U.S. presidential campaign rhetoric - 57 Minutes ago
Egyptian presidential frontrunner Dr. Amr Moussa joined CNN International's Christiane Amanpour for the Wednesday, May 16 edition of Amanpour.Â Dr. Moussa discussed what he thought about the potential

Ad attacks Obama health care, tax, debt promises - 67 Minutes ago
WASHINGTONTITLE: Obama's PromiseLENGTH: 60 secondsAIRING: Network affiliates in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.KEY IMAGES: This

Politics/Law

Obama, Republicans clash over U.S. debt limit increase - 65 Minutes ago
If Republican and Democratic leaders want to avoid a reprise of last year's nasty showdown over raising the federal debt limit, they are not off to a good start. After meeting with President Barack Obama
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UPDATE 1-US Senate to consider new Iran sanctions Thursday - 115 Minutes ago
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will ask the U.S. Senate to approve a new package of oil and economic sanctions on Thursday aimed at pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear program, a Democratic leadership
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Sons of Italy Foundation Honors Sec'y of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at Annual - 5 Hours ago
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF) will honor U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at its 24th annual gala in Washington, D.C. May 23.ï¿½ Secretary Clinton will accept

Business

SAIC and Lingotek Team To Offer Translation Solution Exclusively for Language Service - 6 Hours ago
Machine translation and workflow management platform accelerates translation process PR Newswire NEW ORLEANS, May 16, 2012 NEW ORLEANS, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ï¿½ Today, at the Association of Language
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Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust Announces Agreement to Acquire Two Fully Leased - 60 Minutes ago
/CNW/ - Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust ("PIRET" or the "REIT") (TSXV: AAR.UN) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire two fully leased, single tenant, income producing industrial

Pinnacle Bankruptcy Bargaining Deadlines Extended, USW Advises Court of Problems - 3 Hours ago
PR Newswire PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2012 PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --ï¿½ The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that through the successful work of Pinnacle Airlines' Official Committee

Finance

Direct Insite Announces First Quarter Results - 7 Hours ago
Revenue of $2,115,000 for the First Three Months of 2012 PR Newswire SUNRISE, Fla., May 16, 2012 SUNRISE, Fla., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ï¿½ Direct Insite Corp. (OTC BB: DIRI.OB), a leading provider
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Japan's Economy Grows More-Than-Estimated 4.1% on Quake Work - 64 Minutes ago
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japanâ??s economy expanded faster than estimated in the first quarter, propelled by reconstruction spending thatâ??s poised to fade just as a worsening in Europeâ??s crisis threatens
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Japan economy rebounds in first quarter on firm consumption - 101 Minutes ago
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy grew 1.0 percent in January-March from the previous quarter, powering ahead of other major industrial nations thanks to rebuilding of the tsunami-battered northeast,
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Sports

Winless Pettersen set to defend Match Play title - 51 Minutes ago
Home Â» Wire Â» Sports stories A year after meeting for the Sybase Match Play Championship, defending champion Suzann Pettersen and Cristie Kerr are in the same position on the LPGA Tour. The two veterans
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Cubs send Castillo to DL, recall Maine - 100 Minutes ago
Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - The Chicago Cubs on Wednesday placed reliever Lendy Castillo on the 15-day disabled list with a left groin strain and recalled Scott Maine from Triple-A Iowa. The 23-year-old
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ESPN Deportes Unveils New Initiatives for 2012-2013 - 6 Hours ago
Launches Include New Digital Destination, Additional Soccer Programming, Social Media driven Prime-Time Show, Original Content, and Expansion in Miami PR Newswire NEW YORK, March 16, 2012 NEWï¿½ YORK,
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Industry

ClearOne's Board of Directors Authorizes Stock Buy-back - 3 Hours ago
/PRNewswire/ -- ClearOne (NASDAQ: CLRO) today announced the company's Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program. Under the program, ClearOne is authorized to repurchase up to $2 million

KEMET Introduces Tantalum High Volumetric Efficiency Facedown MnO2 Technology - 6 Hours ago
T428 Series Joins High Reliability Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Family PR Newswire GREENVILLE, S.C., May 16, 2012 GREENVILLE, S.C., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ï¿½ KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM), a leading
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DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. Receives LEED Gold Certification for Its Santa Clara - 6 Hours ago
PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ï¿½ DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT) today announced it has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building
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Internet

Google bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge Graph - 68 Minutes ago
Google has long sought to index the world's information and it's now taking things a step farther with an effort to create "a database of everything in the world" and it's bringing this effort to your

Firefox gets a 'reset' button - 52 Minutes ago
Mozilla wants to cut down on the number of people who complain about Firefox not working properly, and they're giving you a one-click way to do it. A new feature called Reset Firefox gives you the ability

Facebook's Saverin: I'm a 'global citizen,' not a tax dodger - 108 Minutes ago
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Credit: Facebook) Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is simultaneously becoming one of the richer and more reviled people around, wants to set the record straight.

Science

UMass Amherst researchers work to improve camelina yields - 39 Minutes ago
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst is working to significantly increase the oil yields of camelina with the goal of creating a commercially viable crop for biofuel production.
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Radiation Curable Adhesives for Reflective Laminated Solar Panels - 2 Hours ago
Patent - Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for creating flat laminated mirrors, e.g., for use in concentrating solar power CSP applications. In certain example embodiments, the first substrate

Chemistry of the Triplet 14-Electron Complex Fe(CO)3 in Solution Studied by Ultrafast - 51 Minutes ago
Time-resolved IR spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations indicate that the 14-electron, triplet species, 3Fe(CO)3, generated from photolysis of Fe(CO)5, appears to exist uncoordinated

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Technology

Gadget Lab Show: Nook Simple Touch, Pebble Smartwatch, and the Big Jawbone Jambox - 51 Minutes ago
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â On this weekâ??s edition of the Gadget Lab Show, the gang takes a gander at the Nook Simple Touch e-reader and Pebble Smartwatch, the most successful Kickstarter project ever.

How Virgin Atlantic Is Letting You Use Cellphones Mid-Flight - 112 Minutes ago
Whether you want it or not, phone calls are coming to commercial airplane flights. But like any new service, there are technical limitations, a premium price point, and a chance someone is going to be

Storyboard Podcast: Wired Editor Shoshana Berger on the Maker Economy - 91 Minutes ago
Conch shell flower pots, Radio Flyer wagons-turned-go-karts, bamboo bicycles. The Internetâ??s made it easy to share individual projects. But the webâ??s also given designers a sense of community, says

Health

Baby Red Crabs Invade Cayman Islands, Could Signal Tough Hurricane Season - 87 Minutes ago
Share this page Baby red crabs have infested the Cayman Islands by the hundreds of thousands, an in unusually heavy migration season that has caused havoc. If local superstition is any indicator, the
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Macon teen who died from peanut allergy always pulled for underdog - 49 Minutes ago
] May 16, 2012 (The Macon Telegraph McClatchyTribune Information Services via COMTEX) Diallo RobbinsBrinson had dark eyes, a full face, an unassuming look, one that radiated the easy confidence of a young

'Good' cholesterol doctrine may be flawed, says study - 2 Hours ago
AFP - Researchers on Thursday challenged a tenet of modern medicine that higher levels of "good" cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health. In a study published in The Lancet, investigators

Culture

Illinois House votes to restore funding to childcare providers - 49 Minutes ago
] May 16, 2012 (St. Louis PostDispatch McClatchyTribune Information Services via COMTEX) SPRINGFIELD, Ill Statesubsidized childcare providers, who did not receive last month's payments from the state

Review: FiiO E10, HRT HeadStreamer, and NuForce uDAC-2SE USB DAC/Headphone Amplifiers - 79 Minutes ago
Three affordable combo units that aim to spruce up your computer audio experience A short stack of DACs â?? from top, the NuForce uDAC-2SE, the FiiO E10, and the HRT HeadStreamer. Photo: Michael Berk

Qld's Mobile Women's Health Service faces review (ABC) - 2 Hours ago
Queensland Health says a review into its Mobile Women's Health Service is about meeting current needs in rural areas and not about program cuts.The service is 21 years old this year and has 15 bases in