AFP - European aerospace giant Airbus has cut its prices in a bid to win a fight with US rival Boeing for a 40-...

• Top European b-schools continue making the same mistake: First, in 2008 London Business School ousted their new dean, Robin Buchanan, for being too much of a businessman and not enough of an academic dean. Now IMD's president, John Wells, is stepping down due to similar criticism. Finally, Frank Brown, Insead's current dean, also plans to step down in 2011 because of similar accusations. Each of these three b-school leaders will have held their posts for just a few years. According to a

U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, who was branded a oeBailout Boba and denied a fourth term, said some detractors confused the banking-industry bailout with other economic legislation.

AP - North Korea on Friday proposed military talks wi...

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Few issues have stirred more passions than immigration in this country, and this morning the President made clear what many already know: all sides must come together to address it, includ...

The state of Pennsylvania is doing its part to sustain the public service sector. The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and the Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board are initiating a new statewide school loan repayment program, offering “one-year loans to qualifying attorneys at IOLTA-funded legal services organizations that can be used to repay undergraduate and law school debt and will be forgiven at the end of each year,” as reported by New York Lawyer.

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To launch the new LetsMove.gov, the First Lady answered some of your questions in her first live video chat with AOL Health. AOL called on their readers to submit questions for Mrs. Obama in the days leading up to the chat. In addition to the thousands of questions received in advance, even more of you engaged in the live event. Here is what you missed:

GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia - the most popular diabetes drug in the world - increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and death.

Gift Tax from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

A panel of state lawmakers is examining the federal health care overhaul and Minnesota's efforts to provide health care to more people.

AP - Nearly two years after a Wall Street meltdown left the economy reeling, the House on Wednesday pas...

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The East Coast is broiling, hitting temperatures of 100 degrees or more. In contrast, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is losing 100 points or more ...

What if senior management in an Agency – or anyone in the public – could identify and monitor the performance of IT projects just as easily as they could monitor the stock market or baseball scores?  That’s what the IT dashboard does  -- and it’s changing the way government does business.

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U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn assailed the Obama administration on Tuesday, calling Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "sorely lacking" and national health-care reform "a complete disaster." In passing, the Oklahoma Republican accused President Barack Obama's administration of "stealing" from General Motors bondholders and defended Arizona's controversial ...

Democrats controlling the House approved a plan Thursday to cut $7 billion from President Barack Obama's budget request for foreign aid and the operating budgets for Cabinet agencies.

Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less, according to an analysis of documents obtained Thusday by The Associated Press.

The Billionaire Secret: Avoid Ordinary Income, Acquire Capital Gains from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

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New Financial Regulations in the Wall Street Reform Law

AP - The Senate has unanimously confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as the next commander of the Afghanistan war. The vote was 99-0.

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The President began his remarks today on familiar themes. He recounted the stark turnaround from the first half of last year when he first came into office and which saw the economy shed nearly 3 million jobs, to the first half of this year which saw the creation of nearly 600,000 private sector jobs. He also spoke about his focus on creating a new economic foundation for America that would withstand the cycle of boom and bust that has plagued our economy for so long – from reforming our health care system, to catalyzing the clean energy economy, to in...

More and more top MBA programs are allowing students to complete a portion of their MBA requirements online, reports a Wall Street Journal article, "Hybrid MBAs Offer Flexible Option."

Babson College's Fast Track MBA is an example—the program utilizes the same professors as Babson's full-time MBA program, includes group project work (via Skype or conference call), and, according to graduate Sarah Fisher, is just as valuable as the on-campus full-time program. One difference between the Fast Track and the full-time M...

A Marion woman faces an October sentencing after being found guilty Friday of devising a health care fraud scheme.

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Energy investors and entrepreneurs often refer to the period between technologies being developed in the lab and making their way to the marketplace as a "valley of death" due to the multitude of factors that can prevent those advancements from reaching the consumer. Today, just miles from the real Death Valley in Nevada, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and I announced a venture that will help promising solar technologies make that journey to the market. The Nevada Test site, which was once used to test nuclear weapons, will now be dedicated to testing new solar technologies that will help put America on a sustain...

U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults - a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.

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When Alcoa (AA) issued its first-quarter earnings report back in April, I wasn't impressed. I felt the shares weren't a buy, and I wanted a pullback. Well, we got one. In fact, the stock closed Monday's regular session at $10.87, not far from the ...

AFP - Canada on Friday unveiled its most expensive military pu...

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Ben Patterson - Analysts estimate that an (unlikely) iPhone recall could cost a whopping $1.5 billion, although it's not clear what Apple could do to fix the antennas on all th...

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Pete Souza and the White House Photo Office have done it again! Have a look at a new batch of behind-the-scenes photos from the month of June below, or view it full size over at Flickr.

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When President Obama came into office, he committed to providing the best value for the American people while spending less money.  That’s why, on his first full day on the job, the President froze the salaries of senior White House staff, and then expanded that freeze to all senior Administration appointees this year.  And he is breaking with past administrations’ practice by eliminating bonuses for Executive Branch political appointees.

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Congress' rejection of proposed additional stimulus funding for states means Arizona would have to resort to painful budget cuts thought to be have been averted when voters approved a temporary sales tax increase, a key legislator said Thursday.

In 2005, Vineet Sinha was a PhD student in MIT's computer science department, presenting some of his work at a prestigious academic conference in San Diego. The project, Relo, proposed that one way to increase programmers' efficiency was to help them understand vast swaths of already-existing software code more quickly; understanding the code that exists, Sinha explains, requires an enormous investment of time, but if programmers don't do it, their new contributions tend to create problems. Relo created diagrams that showed how various chunks of code were connected to each other — a sort of automatically-generated Ra...

Yesterday the Corporation for National Community Service and the Points of Light Foundation kicked off the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Community Service in New York City. More than 5,000 leaders of the business, nonprofit, government, and volunteer sector are on hand for the three-day event. This represents the largest gathering of service leaders in the world.

Points of Light Foundation CEO Michelle Nunn and I were honored to preside over the opening plenary at historic Radio City Music Hall. We were joined by White House Domestic Policy Director Melody Barnes, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a host of other dignitaries, co...

AFP - The number of mobile phones in use worldwide has topped 5.0 billion, boosted by soaring demand in emerging...

When you are sick and have to go to the hospital, you want to know that you’re getting the highest quality care. And if you’re choosing between hospitals, you should be able to make an informed choice and compare the quality of hospitals in your area. That’s where HealthCare.gov comes in.

By visiting HealthCare.gov, you can quickly access the Hospital Compare tool which analyzes and compares data about the quality of care at more than 4,700 hospitals across the country. Simply type in your zip code or city and state to access a wealth of information, incl...

HealthCare.gov, the new consumer-oriented portal for health insurance coverage information, went live yesterday. But it’s just getting started.

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AFP - US Republican party chief Michael Steele drew heavy fire Friday for confused comments in which he bla...

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Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller's will stand out.

A Clarksburg man has been convicted in connection with the death of his 4-month-old daughter in July 2009.

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This afternoon President Obama held a bilateral meeting with President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, touching on a broad range of issues from the political crisis in Honduras, to trade, to continued efforts to crack down on drug trafficking between our two countries.

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Picture a neighborhood block somewhere in your town.  It might have single-story homes for 10 families -- complete with front porches, sidewalks and green lawns. Or instead that block might have a single apartment building that houses 50 families over five floors.  What we know is that each of the families -- whether they're living in a detached house or a mid-rise apartment --  pays away some of their hard-earned dollars to pay for energy.  And for many low-income Americans, these energy bills absorb a significant amount of the family income. 

Now imagine that teams of trained experts come down that block and install measures to help those familie...

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Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million.

Reuters - President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to liberalize Cold War-era restrictions on weapons and high-technology exports is m...

Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release.

AFP - Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. said Tuesday it had reached an agreement to buy the wireless modem operations of mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. in a 200 million do...

AP - President Barack Obama says U.S. troops are carrying too m...

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AP - A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been transferred to his homeland of Yemen, the U.S. Defense Departm...

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Chinese officials and Google have had a long-standing disagreement over the issue of censorship. The Chinese Information Office of State Council has a process by which all content must be submitted to the Council for ...

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Unemployment Benefits and Homebuyer Credit Not Extended

Dick Morris, the former political adviser to President Bill Clinton who turned his back on Democrats and embraced conservatives, is raising money to help Republican Sharron Angle's Senate bid.