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Unemployment Benefits: Most Of The Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits. Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now […]

For the Oppenheimers, diamonds are not forever   By Marius Bosch Reuters   JOHANNESBURG Nov 4, 2011 – For over 80 years, South Africa’s Oppenheimer family held sway over the global diamond trade, an era which came to an end of Friday with Anglo American’s buyout offer for De Beers. The $5.1 billion the family will […]

London 2012: Olympic and Paralympic posters unveiled BBC News A series of 12 Olympic and Paralympic posters, designed by leading UK artists including Tracey Emin and Chris Ofili, has been unveiled in London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15593109

Chicago alderman proposes decriminalizing marijuana   Reuters – A Chicago alderman proposed an ordinance on Wednesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in a move supporters say would help raise city revenue and free up police to pursue more serious crimes.   But Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he could not support […]

NCAA College football No. 1 LSU at No. 2 Alabama By Jordan Schultz Huffington Post With the Bowl Championship Series system as convoluted as it is, this season’s real national championship could very well be this weekend. Both Alabama, the country’s top ranked team, and LSU, ranked second, feature hard-hitting and extremely fast defenses that will surely turn […]

Biggest Public Firms Paid Little U.S. Tax, Study Says By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI The New York Times  A comprehensive study released on Thursday found that 280 of the biggest publicly traded American companies faced federal income tax bills equal to 18.5 percent of their profits during the last three years — little more than half the […]

A Boeing 767 on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, made a dramatic emergency landing at Warsaw, Poland’s Frederic Chopin International airport Tuesday, November 1, 2011 after problems with its landing gear.

The Shenzhou VIII spacecraft joined onto the Tiangong-1 experimental module just after 1.36 am (1736 GMT Wednesday), silently coupling more than 213 miles above the Earth. BEIJING – Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country’s first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth’s surface. The success of the […]

Bill Clinton won the election to become president of the United States regardless of what he was accused of. How might Herman Cain be impacted by the women who accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s?

  Nations that are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons Year of first nuclear weapons test United States  1945 (“Trinity”) Russia (former USSR) 1949 (“RDS-1”) United Kingdom 1952 (“Hurricane”) France 1960 (“Gerboise Bleue”) China 1964 (“596”) India 1974 (“Smiling Buddha”) Pakistan 1998 (“Chagai-I”) Countries that are thought to have nuclear weapons North Korea (2006) Israel 1979 (Vela […]