Don’t let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.Facebook’s chief executive turns 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network’s biggest week ever. The
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Supermodel Linda Evangelista and a French billionaire, saying they were pleased to end a public fight over paying their 5-year-old’s expenses, on Tuesday got a judge’s approval for a confidential
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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said on Monday it is changing its initial public offering trading procedures following glitches in Facebook Inc’s market debut at the end of last week that prevented some traders
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Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has agreed to sell half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion.The deal, announced Sunday in the U.S., will see
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Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican
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Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official
The California mother of octuplets, dubbed “Octomom,” filed for bankruptcy on Monday, after previously admitting she was on public assistance to support herself and her 14 children.Nadya
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Taking a company public isn’t as simple as collecting Facebook friends.Even if the company is Facebook.When the social media company’s stock starts trading Friday under the symbol FB, buyer demand is
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Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious.Health officials
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Today, during the opening statements of his trial in Greensboro, N.C., two-time presidential candidate John Edwards was accused of illegally using campaign funds during the 2008 presidential race to
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The assembly in a western Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod since all the country’s
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The state of Nevada has issued a license plate giving Google’s self-driving car the green light to travel along public roads.The modified Toyota Prius was issued a license bearing an infinity sign
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Behind the glass meat counter at Casey’s Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition.Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat
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Analysis: Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out “pink slime” stain
Don’t let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.Facebook’s chief executive turns 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network’s biggest week ever. The
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Click image to see more photos. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Vice President Joe Biden apologized to President Barack Obama Wednesday in the Oval Office for jumping the gun on the
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Biden apologizes to Obama over shotgun comments on gay marriage
Business article on Chicago OKs private investment for infrastructure regarding Council, City, Infrastructure, Trust, Billion, Parking, Aldermen, Infrastructure, Private, Lease, Public, Financing, General, Energy, Project, Direct
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A controversial plan to tap private investment to rebuild Chicago’s infrastructure, part of a larger spending plan for $7.2 billion, won approval from the city council in a 41-7 vote on Tuesday.Mayor
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