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The 25 Sexiest Celebrity Mug Shots

Getting arrested for the first time doesn't seem to faze Justin Bieber.After the 19-year-old singer was arrested Thursday for suspected DUI and drag racing, he came off all smiles in his...

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Here's A List Of All The Luxury Items Bob McDonnell May Have To Forfeit After...

The Justice Department on Tuesday indicted Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife, Maureen, on 14 counts stemming from their acceptance of gifts, luxury vacations, and large loans from a...

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It's Pretty Crazy How Different Pension Funds Look Around The World

U.S. pension funds were among the hardest hit investor classes when the financial crisis caused asset prices to plunge.They were also among the biggest beneficiaries of the monster bull market that...

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Gold Has Hit A 2-Month High

Gold futures hit $1,273.50 an ounce in Sunday evening (EST) trading, a 0.7% increase from Friday's close and the highest level since Nov. 20, 2013.Gold had already begun showing signs of shrugging off...

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The Weekend Is Over, And Asia Is Getting Slammed

Markets are open in Asia, and it's ugly.Japan's Nikkei is down 1.9%.Korea's Kospi is down 1.8%.The yen is up 0.3% against the dollar.Gold is up 0.7%, touching its highest level since November.This...

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GoPro Strapped To Board's Bottom Shows Coolest View Of Technical Street...

Dean-Paul Denniston, pro skater for Stix Ride and Acrylick, decided to strap a GoPro to the bottom of his board one day ... and now the world of skating will never be the same.For 20 years the world of...

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'Tiger Mom': Data Prove That The Longer You're In America, The Worse You Perform

It's the No. 1 story on NYTimes.com today.But in case you missed it, Yale Law professor Amy Chua, better known as "The Tiger Mom," along with her husband, are out with an essay summarizing the views of...

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The Fed Steps Up This Week Amid Emerging Market Turmoil — Here's Your...

Things got crazy last week with the global markets getting rocked as the emerging markets (EM) tumbled.While everyone is sure to keep an eye on the EMs this week, the Federal Reserve will take center...

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70 Years After The Siege Of Leningrad, Russia Looks Back With Horror

Non-Russians may not appreciate the significance of the Siege of Leningrad, which ended 70 years ago today, but Michael McFaul, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, hopes to change that."As an ambassador and as...

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Rutgers Student Newspaper Apologizes For 'Distasteful' Opinion Column About...

Rutgers University student newspaper The Daily Targum has retracted and apologized for publishing an offensive opinion column about the school's Hillel — a campus center for Jewish student life.The...

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What Sand Grains Look Like Through A Microscope

Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope.Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope more than...

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Nassim Taleb Explains Why We Actually Benefit From Volatility

 Please enable Javascript to watch this video Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," spoke about volatility and disorder at the  DLD conference. Here is an excerpt from his presentation where he...

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Here Are The States That Support Nearly Doubling The Minimum Wage

The recent debate over raising the minimum wage has been contentious, with revelations about fast food worker's struggles to survive on their wages striking a chord with many Americans. One of the...

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Army General Scolded For Email Joking About Masturbating To 'Smoking Hot'...

Army Brigadier General Martin P. Schweitzer received a "memoranda of concern" following a lurid set of emails between him and another general, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post....

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Facebook Is Going After B2B Marketing Spending

Social Insider is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.FACEBOOK GOES...

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This Is The Hedge In San Francisco That Separates The 1% From The 'Nazis'

Wealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins thinks that people who criticize the rich are acting like the Nazis did toward the Jews in World World II:Writing from the epicenter of progressive...

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Edward Snowden Fails 3 Elementary Tests For Justifying Whistleblowing

Economist senior editor Edward Lucas makes a strong argument against calling Edward Snowden a whistleblower in his new ebook, "The Snowden Operation."As Lucas points out, much of what Snowden disclosed...

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New York Observer Says The NYT 'Bestseller' List Wildly Skews Sales Of New...

Gabriel Sherman's new book about Fox News chief Roger Ailes — "The Loudest Voice in the Room"— built up a huge buzz in the media world leading up to its release.So far, the book's sales haven't...

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APPLE CEO: New Product Categories Are Coming This Year

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on today's earnings call that the company is still on track to release a new product category this year.Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster asked Cook if Apple still planned to...

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The For-Profit Prison Boom In One Worrying Infographic

America has a prison problem: Over two million people in this country live behind bars, the highest number in the world.Some blame the failed "War on Drugs," while others worry about bad incentives,...

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