NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks barely budged on Wednesday as stalled "fiscal cliff" negotiations gave investors little reason to keep buying following the best two-day rally for the S&P 500 in a month. General Motors bucked the overall weakness to surge 8 percent after the company said it will buy back 200 million of its shares from the U.S. Treasury, which plans to sell the rest...
Dec
18
World Briefing | Mideast: Chief Public Prosecutor in Egypt Quits After One Month
Label: World Lynsey Addario for The New York TimesSupporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt fought outside a courthouse in Cairo on Monday. The chief public prosecutor appointed last month by President Mohamed Morsi stepped down Monday after a demonstration by district prosecutors accusing him of political bias. The district prosecutors accused the new...
Merry Christmas, America-Haters?
Label: TechnologyWhen TNT was preparing its annual special “Christmas in Washington” with the president of the United States, you’d think the last star musician they would consider to join the official caroling would be Psy, the South Korean rapper. What on Earth is Christmasy about this man’s invisible-horse-riding dance to his dorky disco-rap hit “Gangnam Style”? It’s not exactly the natural flip-side to “O Holy...
Survivor Winner Denise Stapley: 'I'm in a Daze'
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Steve Helling 12/18/2012 at 01:10 PM EST Denise Stapley Nate Beckett/Splash News Online Denise Stapley shattered Survivor records by being the only player in the show's 25-season history to go to every tribal council – including the final one, where...
Experts: No link between Asperger's, violence
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — While an official has said that the 20-year-old gunman in the Connecticut school shooting had Asperger's syndrome, experts say there is no connection between the disorder and violence.Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness."There really is no clear association between Asperger's and violent behavior," said psychologist Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant...
Wall Street rallies on "fiscal cliff" optimism
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks climbed on Tuesday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its best two-day run in a month, as investors gained confidence that "fiscal cliff" talks were progressing, even as significant differences separate Democrats and Republicans in Washington. The gains followed a rally on Monday that lifted the S&P 500 to its highest point in nearly two months....
Dec
17
In Spain, Having a Job No Longer Guarantees a Paycheck
Label: WorldWorking but Waiting: The Times’s Suzanne Daley reports on struggling Spanish workers who have avoided losing their jobs but often face weeks or months without paychecks.VALENCIA, Spain — Over the past two years, Ana María Molina Cuevas, 36, has worked five shifts a week in a ceramics factory on the outskirts of this city, hand-rolling paint onto tiles. But at the end of the month, she often went unpaid....
RIM begins BlackBerry 10 tests with business, government clients
Label: TechnologyTORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd said on Monday that it had begun a “beta testing” program that allows 120 companies and government departments to try out its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones before their global launch on January 30.The Canadian company, which is trying to reverse a sharp decline in market share for the BlackBerry, said the program would enable so-called enterprise customers...
Hilary Duff: I May Be 'One and Done' with My Son Luca
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 12/17/2012 at 01:00 PM ET Steve Granitz/WireImageThis Christmas will mark the first as a family of three for Hilary Duff and she couldn’t be more excited to celebrate — Luca Cruz, lopsided tree and all.“He’s into everything. I’m running around the house just trying...
Experts: No link between Asperger's, violence
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — While an official has said that the 20-year-old gunman in the Connecticut school shooting had Asperger's syndrome, experts say there is no connection between the disorder and violence.Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness."There really is no clear association between Asperger's and violent behavior," said psychologist Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant...
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