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• Murdoch's board backs embattled boss
• Blind Chinese dissident wants out
• NFL star Junior Seau found dead at home
• Gingrich drops out, offers tepid support for Romney
• No explanation for mysterious death of British spy
• John Edwards' daughter leaves courtroom crying
• Amazon jumping into the original TV programming business
• Gingrich's online alter-egos shut down after he suspends his campaign
• Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer
• Pro-Romney super PAC begins $4.3M ad buy
• MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses
• Bachmann endorses Richard Mourdock in Ind. Senate race
• Obama: Bin Laden raid ‘most important day’ of my presidency
• 13 charged in hazing death of FAMU band member
• Trayvon Martin shooter called Mexicans ‘wanna be thugs’
• Sen. Brown criticized for keeping daughter on health plan
• Obama ex-girlfriend recalls ‘sexual warmth,’ charm
• Water guns banned, handguns allowed at GOP convention
• DEA apologizes for forgetting college student in cell
• Ashton Kutcher's ‘Pop Chips’ video hits nerves on race

Murdoch's board backs embattled boss Posted: A day after the Parliament committee investigating phone-hacking declared Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to lead a major media company, News Corp.'s board of directors announced on Wednesday its full vote of "confidence" in their chairman and chief executive. Here's News Corp.'s full statement: The Board of Directors of News Corporation met today and announced its [...]

Blind Chinese dissident wants out Posted: The blind Chinese dissident who boldly fled house arrest and placed himself under the wing of U.S. diplomats balked Wednesday at a deal delicately worked out between the two countries to let him live freely in China, saying he now fears for his family's safety unless they are all spirited abroad.

NFL star Junior Seau found dead at home Posted: Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau was found dead Wednesday morning at his Southern California home. He was 43 years old.

Gingrich drops out, offers tepid support for Romney Posted: At an event that is long past his campaign's expiration date, Newt Gingrich is scheduled to suspend his presidential campaign at a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Virginia.

No explanation for mysterious death of British spy Posted: The long-awaited coroner's verdict into the mysterious death of a British spy has found that he was probably killed by another person, but has failed to determine how and why he died. The naked body of Gareth Williams was found curled up inside a locked...

John Edwards' daughter leaves courtroom crying Posted: John Edwards' daughter left the courtroom crying during testimony on Wednesday about a confrontation between her father and deceased mother over the onetime presidential candidate's extramarital affair.

Amazon jumping into the original TV programming business Posted: Netflix and Hulu are about to have some company in their efforts to create original TV series for their streaming video customers — a very big company. Amazon, best known for its retail business and ebook readers, has announced plans to create its own … Continue reading →

Gingrich's online alter-egos shut down after he suspends his campaign Posted: Newt Gingrich has officially suspended his presidential campaign, and, alas, his hilarious fake online alter-egos will dutifully follow him into the abyss. The blog "Newt Judges You," which features scores of pictures of Gingrich condescendingly glaring down the world around him, will stop posting new photos, Yahoo News has learned. Each shot included pitch-perfect tag [...]

Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer Posted: A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South Carolina. Jose Padilla, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2007, had accused Yoo of helping to formulate policies under which those designated as "enemy combatants" by the U.S. government were interrogated and detained. The San Francisco-based U.S. ...

Pro-Romney super PAC begins $4.3M ad buy Posted: A super PAC that spent millions of dollars to boost Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican nomination is gearing up to spend millions more to help him unseat President Obama. Restore Our Future, a political group operated by several former Romney advisers, is broadcasting $4.3 million worth of political ads in nine key swing states [...]

MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses Posted: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from a distance. ...

Bachmann endorses Richard Mourdock in Ind. Senate race Posted: Click image to see more photos. (AP/Charlie Riedel) Michele Bachmann on Wednesday afternoon publicly endorsed Richard Mourdock, the candidate who is running against her colleague, Sen. Dick Lugar, in the Indiana Senate primary which takes place next Tuesday. "I am happy to endorse Richard Mourdock for the U.S. Senate today," the Minnesota congresswoman and former [...]

Obama: Bin Laden raid ‘most important day’ of my presidency Posted: President Barack Obama calls the killing of Osama bin Laden "the most important single day" of his time in the White House—and the daring Navy SEAL raid that ended the al-Qaida chief's life "the longest 40 minutes of my life." "I did choose the risk," Obama said in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Brian [...]

13 charged in hazing death of FAMU band member Posted: Thirteen people were charged Wednesday for their roles in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University drum major who was severely beaten in what appears to be one of the biggest college hazing cases ever.

Trayvon Martin shooter called Mexicans ‘wanna be thugs’ Posted: George Zimmerman's 2005 MySpace page, unearthed by the Miami Herald on Wednesday, suggests Trayvon Martin's shooter had a history of racial profiling. Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, confirmed that the page--registered under the username "onlytobekingagain"--was real.

Sen. Brown criticized for keeping daughter on health plan Posted: The hits keep coming in Massachusetts. After facing her own controversy for questions about her Native-American heritage, Elizabeth Warren, the likely Democratic nominee in the Massachusetts Senate race, has accused Sen. Scott Brown of being a hypocrite after he told the Boston Globe that he...

Obama ex-girlfriend recalls ‘sexual warmth,’ charm Posted: The poignant, often intimate recollections come from "Barack Obama: The Story" by David Maraniss. Vanity Fair published excerpts of the book, which will be published in June.

Water guns banned, handguns allowed at GOP convention Posted: In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said this week that banning handguns from downtown...

DEA apologizes for forgetting college student in cell Posted: The Drug Enforcement Administration extended an apology to a University of California engineering student who was locked in a holding cell for more than four days and forgotten about. The student drank his own urine in desperation and attempted to kill himself, before agents returned four days later and found him, he said in a [...]

Ashton Kutcher's ‘Pop Chips’ video hits nerves on race Posted: Ashton Kutcher is well known for his acting career, but he's also a very successful Internet entrepreneur. His Twitter account alone has more than 10 million followers. But a recent attempt at combining the two careers appears to be backfiring in some circles. Kutcher has teamed with the snack food company Pop Chips to launch [...]

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