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• Justice Dept. drops remaining charges against John Edwards
• Doping charges threaten Armstrong's titles
• Why New Yorkers are likely to outlive you
• Gay GOP presidential candidate gets rough welcome in Utah
• Easy day in hot seat for JP Morgan CEO at hearing
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns Russia over Syria
• The Obama enigma: Can a cautious risk-taker get reelected?
• Giant tropical lake found on Saturn's moon
• China seen as top economic power and Obama slips overseas
• Black worker awarded $25 million in racial lawsuit
• Judge people by their shoes? New study says yes
• Distant human ancestor had shark head

Justice Dept. drops remaining charges against John Edwards Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:24 PM PDT The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will give up its criminal case against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. In May, a deadlocked North Carolina federal jury found Edwards not guilty of one charge of accepting illegal campaign donations. The group couldn't reach a decision on five other felony charges, including one alleging that Edwards [...]

Doping charges threaten Armstrong's titles Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:07 PM PDT In a move that could cost him his seven Tour de France titles, former cyclist Lance Armstrong is now facing formal doping charges from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Why New Yorkers are likely to outlive you Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT While life expectancy in many parts of the United States is dropping, it has increased by 10 years in Manhattan since 1987. Researchers largely attribute that rise — the fastest in the nation — to a crackdown by the New York City health department on unhealthy behaviors.

Gay GOP presidential candidate gets rough welcome in Utah Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:58 PM PDT Although Mitt Romney has virtually locked up the Republican presidential nomination and all of his serious challengers have conceded the race, presidential candidate Fred Karger is still out on the trail campaigning. Karger, a gay Republican running an issues-based campaign to change attitudes within the GOP about same-sex marriage, took his efforts last week to [...]

Easy day in hot seat for JP Morgan CEO at hearing Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:21 PM PDT Knocking Europe out of the spotlight for a few hours, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon testified before the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday. The two-plus hours of testimony and Q&A generated plenty of headlines but left a lot of questions unanswered.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns Russia over Syria Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT Clinton said that Russia it is putting its "vital interests" and relationships in the Middle East at risk if it does not act "constructively" on Syria.

The Obama enigma: Can a cautious risk-taker get reelected? Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:47 AM PDT In truth, except for extreme partisans on both sides, it is difficult to conjure up an Obama second term. Yes, we can mentally see him in the Oval Office in 2016, maybe a little greyer than today, but fundamentally the same person. We can hear his campaign rhetoric: "I'm running for president because I want to do something about our debts and our deficits in a balanced and responsible way," the president declared at a fund-raiser Tuesday night in Philadelphia. (Memo to Obama speechwriters: Words like "balanced" and "responsible" rarely get the blood rushing in partisan politics.) But the reality of a reelected President Obama somehow remains frustratingly out of reach.

Giant tropical lake found on Saturn's moon Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:14 AM PDT An oasis of liquid methane has unexpectedly been discovered amid the tropical dunes of Saturn's moon Titan, researchers say.

China seen as top economic power and Obama slips overseas Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:12 AM PDT It's not just how it's playing in Peoria: President Barack Obama's standing overseas has eroded sharply since he took office three and a half years ago, even as many of America's closest friends increasingly say that China is now the world's dominant economic power, according to a report out Wednesday. Solid majorities in Britain, France, [...]

Black worker awarded $25 million in racial lawsuit Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:45 AM PDT A black steelworker has been awarded $25 million in damages after a federal jury ruled his former company didn't do enough to stop years of racial slurs and taunting by his co-workers. According to the Buffalo News, Elijah Turley testified during the trial that colleagues at the Buffalo-area plant called him "boy" and left a [...]

Judge people by their shoes? New study says yes Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:29 PM PDT Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes. "Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "Shoes serve a [...]

Distant human ancestor had shark head Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:13 AM PDT Peer far enough back in the human family lineage, and you'll find a fishy ancestor that looked surprisingly like a shark.

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