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President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president’s money advantage is beginning to dwindle.

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To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police describe him as a cold-blooded killer who stalked his victims on dark stretches of Mississippi’s highways and shot two of them dead.

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(Reuters) – Individual investors were left in the dark for hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had actually been executed, in the latest of a series high-profile exchange glitches in recent years. Ma…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Securities and Exchange Commission will review the Nasdaq trading glitches surrounding the initial public offering of Facebook Inc on Friday, an agency spokesman said. “As is our practice, staff will review the incident with …

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Now that Facebook’s finished its first day on the market, it’s time to figure out what it all means. It ended the day at a price of $38.23 per share, almost exactly where it started the morning at $38 per share, does that mean today basically didn’t ha…

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Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004. The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for Web surfers’ allegiance and online advertisers’ …

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company’s sky-high valuation combined with trading glitches left the stock languishing near its offering price at t…

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Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn’t the first Internet company to connect people online. And it won’t be the last. Here’s a look at how social networking has evolved. Some companies have come and gone…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s modest debut on Friday may have averted a potential headache for the company and regulators, and kept at bay a debate over the role of “odd lots” in the marketplace. Shares of Facebook traded as high as $45, near the…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – On Monday, 74-year-old Betty Tanguilig told her financial adviser to liquidate a $400,000 account and put all the proceeds into Facebook Inc IPO shares. Her adviser, Alan Haft, agreed to sell only $46,000 of the $400,000 account, o…

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(Reuters) – Nasdaq OMX said it intends to reach a resolution for Facebook Inc orders entered from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET through an “offline matching process.” Firms that had questions regarding executions would have to submit requests to Nasdaq by 5…

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An Obama administration plan to cut the cost of space flights faces a key test on Saturday when a privately owned rocket lifts off for a practice run aimed at the first private docking at the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies’…

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But nobody saw how the deadly altercation began.

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Visiting French President François Hollande told President Barack Obama on Friday that France’s combat troops would leave Afghanistan by year’s end and pledged to find a way “for our allies to pursue their mission” in talks at a looming NATO summit. T…

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Ram Singh Chauhan of India has the world’s longest mustache, 14 feet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Chauhan had received attention long before entering the world record books. According to the London Telegraph, his famous facial hair…

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(Reuters) – Individual investors were left guessing for more than two hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had been actually executed. The Nasdaq Stock Market, where Facebook is listed, had problems s…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shorting the Facebook IPO on its first day of trading is not for the faint of heart, but some traders are trying. As the hottest initial public offering in recent memory, Facebook has drawn 1990s-style tech-mania interest from mom …

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After sucessfully going public with the largest-ever IPO for a tech company in history, Mark Zuckerberg had one problem left to address…what to set as his Facebook status.

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(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc shares rose as much as 6.7 percent on Friday after a report that it was close to selling part of its valuable stake in the Alibaba Group. Shares of Yahoo climbed as high as $15.87 before easing to $15.64, up 5.2 percent. Yahoo and…

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Before we watch Facebook be its public self at 11:00 a.m this morning, when its starts trading on the stock market, it’s time to get caught up on what this all means. Last night the company priced its stock at $38 per share for a valuation of $104 bil…

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Twitter on Thursday took a stand for online privacy by backing a Firefox web browsing feature that lets people signal that they don’t want their Internet activity tracked.

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If you’ve ever dreamed about connecting your entire home to the Internet — so that appliances could start by themselves or you could receive text message alerts to maintain housekeeping — it looks like your dream is ready to become a reality.

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Hundreds of firefighters worked to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado.

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World leaders will huddle at Camp David Friday with the focus on Greece as it stumbles toward an unprecedented eurozone exit that holds wildly uncertain repercussions for the global economy.

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A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money and connections talk, especially when it comes to a hot deal handled by Wall Street. The scramble for shares in what is one of larg…

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Herbert Breslin, the hard-driving manager who helped propel Luciano Pavarotti to international fame during the 36 years they worked together, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 87.

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Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows he had marijuana in his system the night he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, and a gunshot to his chest came from close range, according to nearly 200 pages of previously undisclosed documents …

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Soft drink maker Pepsi said on Thursday that it was dropping sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, one day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse in training for a show being beaten by a trainer. The Walking Horse National Celebration …

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A drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and was so good at hiding his whereabouts that he was known as “the ghost” has been arrested along with dozens of others on new charges.

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Plans to turn Wayne Newton’s sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.

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DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first highly visible crack in Facebook’s strat…

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Three people were killed Thursday after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden section of Louisville.

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Facebook is set to raise up to $18.4 billion in its IPO and become the first U.S. company to be worth more than $100 billion at its debut, as investors bet on a big pop when it begins trading Friday on the Nasdaq.

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Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, one of the three lead underwriters on the Facebook Inc IPO, has increased the number of Facebook shares it will allow advisers to allocate to each client account. The firm previously set a cap of 500 sh…

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Gov. Sam Brownback apologized to blacks for segregation in his state in the last century as he marked the anniversary of a ruling that struck down segregation in schools.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money and connections talk, especially when it comes to a deal handled by Wall Street. The scramble for shares in what is one of largest …

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President Barack Obama on Friday kicks off a frenetic four days of guns-and-butter diplomacy, including a pair of high-stakes international summits focused on reviving the sputtering global economy and winding down the unpopular war in Afghanistan. Bot…

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The United Nations and the Brazilian government are launching an Internet debate around 10 themes for a green planet to elicit suggestions from experts and the public for next month’s Rio+20 summit.

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The tweeting masses are on board with the cause of the moment, gay marriage, by a roughly 2.6-to-1 margin, according to a report from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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Yesterday, at the J.P. Morgan 40th Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Verizon EVP and CFO Frank Shammo mentioned that his company would be forcing customers away from their grandfathered unlimited data plans.

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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty slightly changed his tune on his vice presidential prospects Thursday when he didn’t rule out the possibility that he might get picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate.

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Wal-Mart Inc’s profit and sales surpassed expectations as more people shopped at its stores and spent more, pushing shares up more than 4 percent despite ongoing probes into possible bribery.

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In closing arguments, lawyers for the former presidential candidate said that while he may have been a “bad husband,” he did not violate any federal laws in doing so.

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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at the top of its target range to raise more than $16 billion, as strong demand, particularly from retail investors, fuels anticipation of a big pop in the stock when it…

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A possible source of the so-called “birther” issue — or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama — has been identified.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors who managed to buy Facebook Inc shares ahead of the No. 1 social network’s initial public offering might want to think twice before “flipping” them. Brokerages can impose restrictions on participating in future IPOs for t…

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Comcast Corp., the country’s largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, one of the three lead underwriters on the Facebook Inc IPO, has increased the number of Facebook shares it will allow advisers to allocate to each client account. The firm previously set a cap of 500 sh…

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