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  Say cheese! NASA Mars rover photographs own shadow

  

  Posted 10:58 AM 5/24/2012

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004.

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  Texan gets 20-year prison term for al-Qaida links

  Posted 8:09 AM 5/24/2012

  HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas man convicted of trying to help al-Qaida has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.A federal judge in Houston also ordered Barry Walter Bujol Jr. to pay a $10,000 fine at a sentencing hearing Thursday.Bujol was convicted last year of attempting to (More)

  
  

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  Clinton: US hacked Yemeni al-Qaida sites

  Posted 9:42 PM 5/23/2012

  TAMPA, FL - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaida propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ads that showed the death toll of al-Qaida attacks against Yemenis.

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  HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually

  Posted 9:42 PM 5/23/2012

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Hewlett-Packard plans to jettison 27,000 workers as the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers.

  The cuts announced Wednesday represent the HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year (More)

  
  

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  2 panels to launch review of Facebook IPO

  Posted 9:41 PM 5/23/2012

  WASHINGTON, DC - Two congressional panels are reviewing Facebook's high-profile stock offering last week amid allegations that the bank handling the IPO may have provided only select clients with a negative assessment of the company.

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  Facecrooks? Investors file suit as SEC investigates Facebook's IPO

  

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  Posted 3:03 PM 5/23/2012

  (NBC) - Last week's Facebook frenzy on Wall Street has quickly turned to frustration and astonishment.

  "It's the worst IPO I've seen in 30 years. I've never seen anything like this actually," says CNBC host Jim Cramer.

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  Toddler briefly trapped inside running washing machine in NJ

  

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  Posted 12:06 PM 5/23/2012

  (NBC) - Police in Camden, New Jersey are searching for a family shown in a shocking viral video.

  The surveillance video was shot on May 11 at a Camden laundromat.

  It shows the father putting the child in the machine, apparently as part of a "peek-a-boo" game.

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  Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts to keep edge

  

  Posted 8:38 AM 5/23/2012

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from party faithful who are highly motivated to (More)

  
  

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  Passenger's suspicious claim diverts jet to Maine

  Posted 9:53 PM 5/22/2012

  BANGOR, ME - An FBI spokesman says there's no indication that a US Airways jetliner or its passengers were in danger before the Paris-to-North Carolina flight diverted to Maine.

  Officials briefed on the incident say a French passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a (More)

  
  

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  Primary protest votes show displeasure with Obama

  Posted 9:53 PM 5/22/2012

  WASHINGTON, DC - Some presidential primary voters in Kentucky and Arkansas are taking a swipe at President Barack Obama, denying the incumbent nearly 4 out of every 10 votes cast on the Democratic side.

  In Kentucky's closed primary, about 42 percent of registered Democrats who voted (More)