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Manscapes and the Market for Butt Wipes

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:12pm
Howard Stern was right: Wet wipes may be the next big thing in male grooming.
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Turkey's Rulers Get Rude Wake-Up Call

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:02pm
The protests in Turkey serve as a wake-up call for its prime minster, who was caught off guard.
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Sexiest 21st-Century Job: Data Analyst

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:00pm
As more companies mine big data, data analytic specialists are creating a new field in the global labor force.
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Kirk, Rush declare cease-fire

POLITICO - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:57pm
The two Illinois lawmakers had been at odds over a plan dealing with crime in Chicago.
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Inside The Hulu Auction

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:52pm
Each passing day in the ongoing auction for video service Hulu is creating more complications.
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Jobs Front and Center With Dan Marino

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:41pm
The FMHR crew have the play on Juniper. And former NFL quarterback Dan Marino talks about his efforts to find people jobs through his new position at Corporate Resource Services. The NFL Hall of Famer also weighs in on the upcoming football season and new tech.
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Blackberry's Q10 Hits US Market

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:34pm
The new Blackberry Q10, which boasts a Qwerty-keyboard, is rolling out in the U.S. market this week.
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Poll: Peters leads Mich. Senate race

POLITICO - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:31pm
When matched up against former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, Peters leads by 5 points.
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Big NYC hotel ends room service

CNN - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:23pm
For guests at a landmark hotel in the Big Apple, ordering breakfast in bed that gets wheeled in on a silver platter will soon be a thing of the past.
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Companies Not Spending Cash on Workers

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:23pm
Companies flush with cash remain reluctant to spend, choosing to reward investors rather than expand their businesses.
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Unraveling Monday's Early Data Release

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:06pm
Monday's market-moving ISM manufacturing data were inadvertently sent early to a group of high-frequency traders: CNBC
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Emmer may run for Bachmann seat

POLITICO - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:05pm
Bachmann's exit sparked speculation that the former state lawmaker would enter the GOP fray.
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SEC Unveils Money Market Fund Reforms

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:04pm
The SEC proposes a major reform of the money market fund industry in an effort to reduce the risk of runs.
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DealBook: Jefferson County, Ala., Reaches Bankruptcy Deal

The New York Times - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:01pm
Jefferson County’s $4.2 billion municipal bankruptcy is the largest such filing in United States history, and it is being closely watched for the precedent it might set.    

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American soldier pleads guilty in Afghan massacre

FOX News - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 12:00pm

The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year has pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales entered the plea Wednesday in a military courtroom to multiple counts of premeditated murder and other charges.

A military judge will question the soldier about what happened before deciding whether to accept the plea.

Bales was charged in the March 2012 attacks on two villages near the remote base in southern Afghanistan where he was posted. Most of the victims were women and children, and some of the bodies were burned.

Bales' attorney, John Henry Browne, has said he expects his client to admit to "very specific facts" about the killings at the hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.

Although Wednesday's proceedings will provide Bales' account for the first time, survivors who testified by video link from Afghanistan during a hearing last fall vividly recalled the carnage.

A young girl in a bright headscarf described hiding behind her father as he was shot to death. Boys told of hiding behind curtains as others scrambled and begged the soldier to spare them, yelling: "We are children! We are children!" A thick-bearded man told of being shot in the neck by a gunman "as close as this bottle," gesturing to a water bottle on a table in front of him.

Prosecutors say that before dawn on March 11, 2012, Bales slipped away from Camp Belambay in Kandahar Province, armed with a 9 mm pistol and M-4 rifle outfitted with a grenade launcher.

He first attacked one village of mud-walled compounds, Alkozai, then returned to the base, woke up a fellow soldier and told him about it. The soldier didn't believe him and went back to sleep. Bales then left to attack a second village, Najiban.

The massacre prompted such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in Afghanistan, and it was three weeks before Army investigators could reach the crime scene.

Bales was serving his fourth combat deployment and had an otherwise good if undistinguished military record in a decade-long career. The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium -- both provided by other soldiers -- the night of the killings.

The case raised questions about the toll multiple deployments were taking on American troops. For that reason, many legal experts believed it was unlikely he would receive the death penalty, as Army prosecutors were seeking. The military justice system hasn't executed anyone since 1961, but five men currently face death sentences.

"Any time you can strike a deal that saves your client's life, I would call that a win," said Dan Conway, a civilian military defense lawyer who is not involved in the case. "This is the right result for both parties."

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Bloomberg group's new Ayotte ad

POLITICO - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:57am
The buy clocks in at $400,000 and is set to run for 10 days in the Boston and Manchester markets.
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Several People Trapped After Building Collapses in Philadelphia

The New York Times - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:51am
The fire commissioner says as many as eight to 10 people are believed trapped in the rubble.    

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Brady on Gronk and...Playing for NY?

CNBC - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:45am
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said the chances of him ever playing in New York are "slim."
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CNN affiliate: Oakland video shows execution of teen

CNN - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:43am
A surveillance video captured a masked gunman on a rampage in broad daylight on an Oakland, California, street that includes the point-blank execution of a teenage boy cowering on sidewalk, CNN affiliate KTVU said.
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Pol's wife calls out Facebook suitors

POLITICO - Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:31am
The Alabama state senator's wife makes it clear she's had enough.

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