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Trading has been halted in Nasdaq-listed securities because of a technical problem. The exchange sent out an alert to traders at 12:20 p.m. EDT saying that trading was being halted until further notice because of problems with a quote dissemination system. Nasdaq sent out an update at 1pm...

Hey, remember the Oberlin College Hate Speech incidents? No? Here's a reminder: Hate Speech Incidents Continue Oberlin College cancels classes after racist and homophobic incidents | World news | theguardian.com And then it was discovered that: Oberlin vandalism was perpetrated by...

(CNN) -- WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning intends to begin hormone therapy for gender reassignment and live the rest of his life as a woman, according to a statement from him read on NBC's "Today" show Thursday. Manning wants to be referred to as Chelsea -- not Bradley -- according to the...

via sda This Is Awkward The White House asked the Centers for Disease Control "to research the causes and prevention of gun violence." • "Whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue." • "Studies that directly...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives say it has proof the Liberals engaged in voter suppression tactics in the 2008 election, in a move the opposition says is a deflection from its own issues with electoral fraud. The Conservative party released an invoice they say is from the Liberal headquarters and...

MARINE CITY (WWJ) - Authorities say a 24-year-old Canadian man was busted trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States by crossing the St. Clair River in a scuba suit. Jesse James Thomas Zunti, a Windsor resident, was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents around 1 a.m. Monday...

TORONTO - Ten years ago, as the province emerged, blinking, from a dark tunnel of a massive blackout that left 50 million people without power, we asked why? And we wanted to know what we could do to avoid having it happen again. We looked at what worked — and what didn’t. One of the key...

GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut — Stephen Harper took up arms — albeit antique ones — for some target practice on the Arctic tundra and plied the frigid waters of the Northwest Passage in a sovereignty patrol meant to show solidarity with Canadian Rangers. Both the prime minister and newly appointed...

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - A man who a B.C. provincial court judge said inflicted "horror and pain" on the lives of two families when he forced two young children attending his wife's daycare to perform sexual acts has been given a four-year prison term. Latif Tata, 39, pleaded guilty earlier...

So it's come to this has it? :lol: The proposed reversal and expansion of an oil pipeline has raised concern in Canada and in the U.S. from environmentalists opposed to further export of Canadian oil sands bitumen, and one reporter got an upfront-and-personal look at that outrage...

In late September 2010, Iowa senator Chuck Grassley and six of his colleagues grew suspicious that a senior Obama administration official had improperly accessed the tax information of industrial behemoth Koch Industries. After Austan Goolsbee, then-chairman of the president’s Council of...

They just don’t care The Parti Québécois (PQ) has fired the first of many shots in its apparent battle against cultural and religious minorities; a battle which will culminate with the release of what promises to be a highly offensive and illegal Charter of Quebec Values this fall. A few...

Government bans are becoming increasingly common, but this may be the worst one yet. Officials in Marblehead, Mass., earlier this month decided that the town’s docks had become overcrowded with fishers — so the board voted to ban all fishing from public piers. Naturally, a few Bay Staters...

Dr. Phil wants to know. Or at least he did want to know. Considering Dr. Phil hosts a talk show driven by lifestyle and relationship driven topics, it seems the subject matter is not necessarily out-of-bounds, but something about the phrasing of the question along with Dr. Phil's smiling...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas police say a man raped a woman, then used her cellphone to send her family messages. A police report shows officers wanted to track the phone to find their suspect Sunday morning after the attack, but were told it could wait until Monday. The 20-year-old victim...

(Reuters) - Syria's opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people near Damascus on Wednesday after rockets released deadly fumes over rebel-held suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept. What would be the world's most lethal chemical weapons attack since...

via fark Study shows when 25% of a population takes antidepressants, they're probably being overprescribed Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed. One in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication; among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is one...

6 of the Craziest Conspiracy Theories From Jesse Walker's "United States of Paranoia" The United States of Paranoia, an examination of the impact of conspiracy theories on America history by Reason editor Jesse Walker, hit bookstores on Tuesday—you should read it. I reviewed it in brief for our...

Death has long been taboo in an American culture that values youth, but an open conversation online can increase our enjoyment of life and understanding of its eventual end. For a week last month, Scott Simon, the popular radio host of NPR's “Weekend Edition Saturday,” stayed by his mother's...

Japan's nuclear agency has upgraded the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale. Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday. It was first...