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Feds sue Bank of America for 'Hustle' loan fraud

USA TODAY - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Feds sue Bank of America for 'Hustle' loan fraud. Kevin McCoy, USA TODAYShare. Comments. bofa. Bank of America's corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Federal Prosecutors Sue Bank of America Over Mortgage Program
US suit cites 'brazen' mortgage fraud at Countrywide, even after Bank of America ...
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Romney: Debates "supercharged" my campaign

CBS News - ‎9 minutes ago‎
(CBS News) At a rally last night near Denver, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney made sure to mention what everyone knows - the debates have fueled his surge in the polls.
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iPad Mini, Despite $199 Tablet Rivals, Will Dominate Holidays, Beyond

eWeek - ‎38 minutes ago‎
ANALYSIS: Apple's iPad mini was expected but its pricing was a surprise. Even starting $130 ahead of $199 rivals, analysts say the mini will "cement" Apple's tablet dominance.
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UN Envoy Expects Syrian Government to Observe Holiday Truce

Voice of America - ‎1 hour ago‎
UNITED NATIONS - Diplomats say that international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council Wednesday that he expects the Syrian government to confirm to him by Thursday whether it will abide by a truce with opposition fighters during the ...
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Ty Cobb's family will be rooting for the Giants and not the Tigers in the World ...

Yahoo! Sports (blog)
52 minutes ago
Written by
Jay Busbee
Ty Cobb. (Getty Images)Few ballplayers in history could match the ferocity and competitive drive of Ty Cobb, and none could match his on-field records which live on to this day.
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Halloween scare? Hurricane Sandy shows similarities to 'perfect storm.' (+video)

Christian Science Monitor - ‎15 minutes ago‎
Halloween scare? Hurricane Sandy shows similarities to 'perfect storm.' (+video). Hurricane Sandy, now near Jamaica, could hit the East Coast as a strong tropical storm, causing flooding early next week, according to one forecast model.
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Hamas militants blast Israel with rockets

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Hamas militants blast Israel with rockets. Share. Comments. Gaza rockets. Medics carry a man wounded by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip, for treatment in Soroka hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel.
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Syria may exploit instability in Lebanon: Clinton

Reuters - ‎57 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Syria could take advantage of a political vacuum in Lebanon, and she urged Lebanese politicians to form a government free of "proxies and agents for outside forces.
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2 dead, 3 wounded in related LA-area shootings

USA TODAY - ‎27 minutes ago‎
4:59PM EDT October 24. 2012 - Five people were shot at a Los Angeles-area business and a nearby home, and at least two people are confirmed dead, according to news reports.
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Man killed while praying at Creflo Dollar's church

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Police in College Park, Ga., are investigating the shooting death of an employee who was leading a prayer in the chapel at the World Changers Church International.
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Suspect arrested in Jessica Ridgeway murder case

USA TODAY - ‎24 minutes ago‎
Jessica was found in a field in an area of abandoned mines in Arvada, Colo. (Photo: Westminster Police Department via AP). 4:44PM EDT October 24.
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Gupta Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

Wall Street Journal - ‎10 minutes ago‎
By MICHAEL ROTHFELD And DAN STRUMPF. Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in federal prison for leaking corporate secrets about the investment bank to a hedge-fund manager at the height of the ...
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Romney campaign says he still supports Senate candidate after rape comment

Chicago Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
Republican Mitt Romney's campaign says he still supports Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after Mourdock said "God intended" pregnancies that result from rape.
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Third-party candidates finally get their own presidential debate

Washington Post (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
For 90 minutes, a quartet of longer-than-longshot presidential hopefuls reveled in their “debate” in Chicago, available to all the world via C-SPAN, Al Jazeera and the miracle of live-streaming by the sponsoring Free and Equal Elections Foundation and other ...
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Biden confuses Iowa with Ohio in campaign stop

Fox News (blog) - ‎18 minutes ago‎
Marion, Ohio - With so many swing states to hit in so little time, Vice President Biden confused a couple of them Wednesday -- when he mistakenly referred to Ohio as Iowa while attacking Mitt Romney.
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Microsoft Apologizes For Lack Of Browser Choice

InformationWeek
59 minutes ago
Written by
Thomas Claburn
Following a formal complaint from the European Commission about Microsoft's failure to live up to its promise to offer Window users a browser choice screen, Microsoft says it's sorry and attributes its 17-month period of non-compliance to a technical problem.
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Facebook stock posts biggest single-day gain

San Jose Mercury News
45 minutes ago
Written by
Brandon Bailey
Facebook shares on Wednesday saw their biggest single-day gain in the company's short history, after a reported increase in mobile advertising revenue helped boost the stock out of its months-long doldrums.
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Microsoft Surface Review Roundup

Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎49 minutes ago‎
The verdict is in for Microsoft's new tablet, the Surface. Coming in at a price that's around that of the iPad, it's a big gambit by Microsoft to find its way into the tablet market, which is slowly eating away at the PC market.
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Spears' ex-manager says he was punched by her father

Fox News - ‎32 minutes ago‎
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' ex-manager has described a scene of domestic warfare with the singer's father chasing him around a kitchen, punching him and threatening his life.
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Tom Cruise files $50M defamation suit over Suri abandonment claim

Los Angeles Times
1 hour ago
Written by
Christie D'Zurilla
Tom Cruise is suing for defamation over a Life & Style cover alleging he "abandoned" daughter Suri. Here, he carries the 6-year-old on their way to a gymnastics class in New York.
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Jessica Simpson's parents Tina and Joe Simpson file for divorce

Los Angeles Times
28 minutes ago
Written by
Nardine Saad
Jessica Simpson's mom and dad are calling it quits: Joe and Tina Simpson have filed for divorce. "It is an amicable split and there is no third party involved," the family rep told People.
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Islanders officially headed to Brooklyn in 2015

NHL.com - ‎29 minutes ago‎
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Hello Brooklyn. Those were the words uttered Wednesday by several elated power brokers, chief among them New York Islanders owner Charles Wang and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, sitting in a row on a podium just inside the ...
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Eli Manning won't exchange gift from DeAngelo Hall, Redskins

Los Angeles Times - ‎12 minutes ago‎
Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall says the New York Giants didn't really earn their 27-23 victory Sunday. Instead, Hall told reporters on Wednesday, the Redskins gave it to their NFC East rivals by blowing the coverage on what turned out to be ...
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Bettman says full season 'not going to be a reality'

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Bettman says full season 'not going to be a reality'. Share. Comments. 2012-10-24-bettman. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman address the status of labor talks while speaking at the New York Islanders' news conference.
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Amazing photo captures 84 million stars in Milky Way

Fox News - ‎2 hours ago‎
This view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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Electric Bugs: New Microbe Forms Living, Deep-Sea Power Cables

Wired (blog)
44 minutes ago
Written by
Brandon Keim
The world's deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through a type of newly discovered bacteria that forms living electrical cables.
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New gene therapy method replaces mitochondrial DNA, study says

Los Angeles Times
1 hour ago
Written by
Karen Kaplan
A new approach to gene therapy would potentially allow women with disease-causing mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies, according to a new study.
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