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Apple's Cook faces Senate questions on taxes
1 hour 45 mins ago
Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.
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Sprint to listen to Dish offer
32 mins ago
Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.
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Sprint boosts buyout offer for Clearwire
29 mins ago
Sprint Nextel Corp. is offering 14 percent more than before for the stake in wireless data network operator Clearwire Corp. it does not already own, but a large shareholder said the offer was still inadequate.
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With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
36 mins ago
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved _ and disable it remotely.
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Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment
36 mins ago
Microsoft thinks it has the one.
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Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
49 mins ago
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
66 mins ago
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
66 mins ago
The meeting on a sunny Havana square was a little bit revolutionary for Cuba's revolution. And for U.S. diplomacy as well.
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Strange
Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled
An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
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World
Gandhi's 'blood sample' fails to sell in Britain
Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi's personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn't draw high enough bids.
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Politics
US lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard
Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.
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Health
Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy
Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by ...
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