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When you buy your Facebook stock today, understand that Goldman is selling 1/2 of their stock in Facebook, and sit smug knowing you're smarter than Goldman Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and funds managed by the firm will sell about $1 billion of stock in Facebook Inc. (FB)’s initial public...

Michigan Worker Fired After Turning In Gun Found On The Job Sometimes it doesn't pay to do the right thing. Just ask John Chevilott, a former public-works employee in Wayne County, Mich., who earlier this month found a loaded, snubnosed revolver while mowing grass in Detroit's...

"One in eight students at Iowa State University didn't realize they would have student loan debt after graduation" Nearly 40 percent of Iowa State University students underestimated the amount of student loans they owe, while one in eight didn’t realize they had debt, according to research by...

It's just money. This may not have been the type of "stimulus" feds intended. Two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million were distributed to the University of California San Francisco, NBCBayArea.com has discovered. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into...

Ouch: Obama’s Budget Defeated In Senate 99-0… His budget also received zero votes in the House, so not a single Democrat in either chamber was willing to vote for Obama’s plan. The Senate vote would have been 100-0 if Senator Kirk wasn’t recovering from a stroke.President Obama’s budget...

The hipster critics are gushing over it kids. Get your copy when you can! In June, an anthology of poems written by Taliban soldiers will be published and available for sale in America. "Poetry of the Taliban" – edited by a group of London researchers – has already been released in the...

to Accommodate Wind Energy The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a division of the Interior Department, is considering loosening regulations on the killing of bald eagles, the national bird of the United States, to accommodate the development of wind energy sources. A draft regulation...

Not bad. One Friday afternoon recently, about 50 fans and friends of the band String Cheese Incident took $20,000 in cash to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles to take a small stand against the system — in this case, Ticketmaster. With money advanced by the band, each person had...

"Well, we can't give the $72 million it would take to build a new bridge because the old one is unsafe. But we can spend $10 million to paint the old one and make it look prettier" The Interstate-74 bridge is undergoing a multimillion-dollar...

A new hero emerges in the quest to free OJ so that he can continue his search for the real killer LAS VEGAS -- A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from Nevada state prison, alleging the former football star was so badly represented by...

$1 million a day. And that's the good neighbor and ally discount. Pakistan's price: US to pay $365 million more a year to reopen supply lines The cost of the US-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under an agreement that would reopen a key NATO supply...

And surprisingly enough, the judge doesn't buy it. Convicted man claims teen girl sexually assaulted him WINNIPEG — A 53-year-old man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl after a judge rejected his claim it was the girl who...

Probably the last person you’d expect to cite Sarah Palin favorably is Noam Chomsky. Yet in an interview with the Leftist news organization Democracy Now, Chomsky did precisely that, saying Palin was right to mock Obama for his lack of substance. “I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin,”...

WINNIPEG - It's all fun and games until someone sends your bar fight video to the police. A group of young men in The Pas videotaped themselves taunting an intoxicated man outside the local Legion on May 5. "It was stupid. I don't know what they were expecting," said The Pas RCMP Sgt. Lee...

OTTAWA — Time for a resurrection of Stephen Harper, blue-sweater guy — or perhaps a duet with Yo-Yo Ma? Given the controversies that have plagued Conservatives these past six months, and the recent surge in popularity of the New Democrats under Thomas Mulcair, you could be forgiven for...

I'd never seen this until today. Paul VI Audience Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not picking on Catholics but jeez, what a hideous sculpture.

WTF? Many of President Obama’s fervent devotees are young enough not to have much memory of the political world before the arrival of The One. Coincidentally, Obama himself feels the same way—and the White House’s official website reflects that. The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper...

No, it's not April 1st again. Turns out that what happens in Vegas no longer stays in Vegas—and that's a good thing. A self-proclaimed Meat Geek has teamed up with Oklahoma State University to devise the first new style of steak in years. "The Vegas Strip Steak is the latest and perhaps...

A 67-year-old man died after enjoying a number of lap dances at a strip club. Robert Gene White, from El Paso County, Texas, was at the Red Parrot strip club on Friday night. Manager of the club said the elderly man had been getting lap dances, but when it came to paying the dancers, he was...

Ottawa will stop issuing social insurance cards in March, 2014. Scrapping the cards will save $1.5-million a year and protect Canadians from fraud, officials said on Tuesday at the Senate finance committee.In the future, people starting work or accessing government services for the first...