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Oracle’s Amazon-killer might really be 6 months away

Oracle’s Amazon-killer might really be 6 months away

  At Oracle’s enormous customer conference, held last month in San Francisco, company executivestalked endlessly about Oracle’s plan to dominate in the cloud-computing business. There’s… Read More ›

Washington – Study: Even The Normal-weight Should Watch That Apple Shape

Washington – Study: Even The Normal-weight Should Watch That Apple Shape

Washington – A pot belly can be a bad thing — even if you’re not considered overweight. New research suggests normal-weight people who carry their… Read More ›

Kiryas Joel, NY – Town Residents OK Expansion Of Hasidic Village

Kiryas Joel, NY – Town Residents OK Expansion Of Hasidic Village

Kiryas Joel, NY –  Residents living next to a Hasidic Jewish village in the Hudson Valley have voted to allow its expansion. Monday night’s vote… Read More ›

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters: 63 Million Should Have Eye Out For Bad Weather

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters: 63 Million Should Have Eye Out For Bad Weather

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters are warning 63 million people in the central U.S. to have an eye out for bad weather this week as… Read More ›

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Yangon, Myanmar – Only a fraction of the results have been announced in Myanmar’s historic parliamentary elections, but jubilant crowds still packed the streets outside the… Read More ›

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

  Rising sea levels from unchecked carbon emissions could drive more than 100 million people into extreme poverty and submerge the homes of over half… Read More ›

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russian track and field athletes could be banned from the 2016 Olympics after an independent report detailed an apparently state-sponsored doping program. Commissioned by the… Read More ›

Goldman Sachs is ditching its BRIC fund

Goldman Sachs is ditching its BRIC fund

  Fourteen years after coining a term that came to define emerging-market investing, Goldman Sachs has ditched the BRICs. The firm is merging its BRIC… Read More ›

China’s trade data was a lot of gloom

China’s trade data was a lot of gloom

On Sunday, China released its October trade figures with exports, imports, and the size of the overall trade surplus coming in lower than expected. From… Read More ›

NOW COMES FEDSPEAK: Here’s a preview of this week’s big market-moving events

NOW COMES FEDSPEAK: Here’s a preview of this week’s big market-moving events

  The US economy had a blockbuster October. US companies added a whopping 271,000 jobs during the month, crushing expectations for an increase of 185,000.… Read More ›

Meridian, MS – Mississippi Parking Lot Cave-in Swallows 12 Vehicles

Meridian, MS – Mississippi Parking Lot Cave-in Swallows 12 Vehicles

  Meridian, MS – Twelve vehicles were swallowed when a 400-foot-long section of an outdoor parking lot caved in outside a Mississippi pancake house that… Read More ›

Hyattsville, MD – Authorities: 4 Killed, Others Hurt In Fiery Maryland Crash

Hyattsville, MD – Authorities: 4 Killed, Others Hurt In Fiery Maryland Crash

  Hyattsville, MD – Four people including a child have died and 12 others have been injured after a van caught fire in a crash… Read More ›

Dallas, TX – License Plates On Limo JFK In When Killed Sell For $100K

Dallas, TX – License Plates On Limo JFK In When Killed Sell For $100K

  Dallas, TX – The license plates that were on the limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas have sold… Read More ›

Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Students at a Colorado high school exchanged hundreds of naked photos of themselves, prompting a felony investigation by police and the forfeiture of a football… Read More ›

U.S. officials express growing confidence bomb downed Russian plane

U.S. officials express growing confidence bomb downed Russian plane

The United States appears to be increasingly confident that a terrorist bomb brought down the Russian passenger jet that broke apart over Egypt. The growing… Read More ›

US updating nuclear arsenal to deter ‘Russian aggression’

US updating nuclear arsenal to deter ‘Russian aggression’

Pentagon head Ashton Carter says Washington not seeking new Cold War, but adapting ‘operational posture’ to deal with new moves by Moscow   SIMI VALLEY,… Read More ›

A Texas judge was shot outside of her home and sustained ‘extremely serious’ injuries

A Texas judge was shot outside of her home and sustained ‘extremely serious’ injuries

  Julie Kocurek, a state district judge in Texas, was returning to her West Austin home on Friday night when shots rang out, seriously injuring her… Read More ›

Here’s how Marco Rubio rang up more than $7,000 in personal expenses on a GOP charge card

Here’s how Marco Rubio rang up more than $7,000 in personal expenses on a GOP charge card

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Presidential candidate Marco Rubio put more than $7,000 in personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card during a nearly two-year… Read More ›

Ben Carson may have fabricated a story about being the ‘most honest’ student while at Yale

Ben Carson may have fabricated a story about being the ‘most honest’ student while at Yale

  After hosting a raucous press conference Friday evening to respond to several questionable claims about his past, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson may have more… Read More ›

New York – Protesters Gather In NYC To Protest Trump’s ‘SNL’ Appearance

New York – Protesters Gather In NYC To Protest Trump’s ‘SNL’ Appearance

  New York –  Demonstrators are marching through the streets of New York City to protest Donald Trump’s views on immigration hours before he hosts… Read More ›