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Beating caught on video on New York City subway train

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newyork.cbslocal.com Man wearing blue doo rag delivering punches  ...

Obama: 'I would resign' in Weiner's situation

today.msnbc.msn.com Obama: “When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can't serve as effectively as you need to, at the time when people are worrying about jobs, and their mortgages, and paying the bills — then you should probably step back’’  ...

Facebook lost nearly 6 million United States users in May 2011

myfoxny.com Last July Facebook exceeded 500 million users  ...  dailymail.co.uk 100K Brits deactivate Facebook accounts  ...

Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'

nation.foxnews.com Obama"Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected."  ...

GOP DEBATE: Bachmann grabs spotlight with filing announcement

thehill.com/blogs Had suggested that she would announce run during a trip to Iowa, but instead chose to do it in New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation primary state  ...

Jordan's King Abdullah II met with tossed bottles and rock in visit to south Jordan

news.yahoo.com A crowd of youths flung objects at the monarch's motorcade in two incidents in the town of Tafila  ...

North Korea may have succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear device

ca.news.yahoo.com  No proof, but they've had enough time; North Korea has also been working, so far with little success, to build a missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon as far as the United States  ...

Fight against Arizona fire moves to New Mexico border

santafenewmexican.com Firefighter crews lit fires around the town of Luna, New Mexico to stop the flames  ...

Tens of Thousands in freezing night without power after Christchurch hit by earthquakes, again

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telegraph.co.uk Winter in New Zealand with 20,000 with Orion power company warning no power until Tuesday  ...

Facebook IPO Valuation Could Top $100 Billion

cnbc.com "The 500 Rule"once a private company has more than 500 investors, it must release quarterly financial information to the Securities and Exchange Commission, just like public companies  ...

Dell, Barnes & Noble, Crate & Barrel perform poorly in online customer service survey

chicagotribune.com  STELLAService.com: Disney, Amazon performed well  ...  blog.stellaservice.com Office Depot, Sierra Trading Post performed well  ...

IMF hit by 'very major' cyber security attack with "high profile breaches"

bbc.co.uk  Happened before former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over sexual assault charges; lasted several months  ...

President Obama meets two dozen Wall Street executives in White House Blue Room.

nytimes.com Obama enraged many financial industry executives a year and a half ago by labeling them “fat cats” and criticizing their bonuses  ...

Samsung, Apple set to overtake Nokia in smartphone sales

chicagotribune.com Forecast for HTC to almost match Nokia during 2012  ...

FBI gives new investigative power to agents

sltrib.com More leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention  ...

East Meadow (NY) Police: 11 Arrested After Fight Breaks Out Inside Long Island Hospital

newyork.cbslocal.com Mob behavior as 11 people walked into Nassau University Medical Center, threatened hospital staff; Kadeen McDonald arrested for fighting injuring police officer  ...

White House Jay Carney won't say exposure poser Weiner should resign

thehill.com "the president feels, we feel at the White House this is a distraction" ... but senior Democrats, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and Democratic Campaign Congressional Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.),  have called on Weiner to resign  ...

Pimco's Bill Gross: US in worse shape financially than Greece

cnbc.com While public focuses on public debt, there's no consideration of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security factors  ...

Stocks up after being down for six weeks

cnbc.com Stocks gain amid merger& aquisition news; energy down  ...

Treasure-hunter Bill Warren to search for Osama bin Laden's body in North Arabian Sea

dailymail.co.uk  Warren: " I do not trust my government or Obama " ... he's launching an underwater search to find the of Osama bin Laden because does not believe President Obama gave enough proof of the terrorist's death  ...

Russia objects to US warship in Black Sea

news.yahoo.com  Guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey is taking part in annual joint military exercises conducted by NATO and Ukraine  ...

More photos of Weiner exposed in House Members Gym at Rayburn House Office Building

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tmz.com  PHOTOS: Wearing nothing but a towel, grabbing his crotch in locker room; comments: "pervert, fugly dude, YUCK, pathetic loser, dork  ... Who new him well?  nytimes.com Became friends with Ben Affleck during while the actor research his character for "State of Play"  ...  thedailybeast.com Former girlfriend, Kirsten Powers, defended him before she realized he lied to her: "Narcissism doesn’t begin to describe this kind of behavior"  ...

Two new super heavy elements added to periodic table, unnamed so far with Atomic Numbers 114 & 116

scientificamerican.com/blog Both the newly vetted elements have higher atomic numbers than any element yet recognized by IUPAC ...

Chicago police searching for missing man, Joshua Brown, 33; left suicide note

chicagobreakingnews.com 6' 200 LBS last seen Monday  ...    Info? Call Belmont Area special-victims detectives at 312-744-8266.

President Obama’s phony accounting on the auto industry bailout

washingtonpost.com "One of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech"  ... YouTube.com/whitehouse Obama's speech from a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio  ...

Possible pipe bomb found at MIT dorm Building W70

tech.mit.edu  Suspicious materials disrupted by Cambridge bomb squad at New House around 9:50 am. ...   wickedlocal.com/cambridge Possible pipe bomb found MIT dorm in Cambridge  ... 471 Memorial Drive

Maryland Transit Administration police detain Christopher Fussell for photography, video at Baltimore Cultural Light Rail Station

baltimore.cbslocal.com Police cite Patriot Act; Fussell: "I am not committing a crime" continues taking video  ...  youtube.com Detained for photography in Baltimore  ...

Octomom Doctor, Michael Kamrava physician medical license revoked

tmz.com  Nadya Suleman's doctor's licensed revoked to protect public health; Bad judgement inserting so many embryos  ...

Parkinson's surprise research news on stem cells is discouraging for Michael J. Fox

showbizspy.com Pluripotent stem cells are rejected by patients' immune systems  ... guardian.co.uk/science Surprise stem cell transplants rejected; In mice, some cells completely destroyed  ... Google image search pluripotent stem cells ...

Katya Koren, 19-Year-Old Muslim Beauty Queen

huffingtonpost.com Ukranian officials say her Muslim religious background is a fabrication  ...  dailymail.co.uk Battered body buried in forest in Crimea region of Ukraine; arrested suspect Bihal Gaziev quoted saying Katya 'violated the laws of Sharia'  ...

Broad selloff in stock market after disppointing private employment data

foxbusiness.com Private payrolls increased only 38,000 jobs in May  ... finance.yahoo.com  ... DOW down, -231.29; bank stocks biggest decliners ...