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Michele Bachmann's New Hampshire Staff Quits

Michele Bachmann's New Hampshire Staff Quits

Staff felt constantly "betrayed and even lied to," a local TV station reports. The resignations deal another blow to her flagging campaign. More »

Another Obama Jobs Proposal Dies in the Senate

Another Obama Jobs Proposal Dies in the Senate

Democrats want to pass the $447 billion package in pieces. Republicans have killed the first one. More »

How Fox News Is Ruining the GOP

How Fox News Is Ruining the GOP

Do Republicans want to run the country, or score lucrative TV contracts? The network offers them the lure of punditry. More »

Steve Jobs Regretted Not Having Earlier Cancer Surgery

Steve Jobs Regretted Not Having Earlier Cancer Surgery

In an interview that will air this weekend, biographer Walter Isaacson will talk about why Jobs waited to operate More »

Clinton and Karzai Laugh at Herman Cain

Clinton and Karzai Laugh at Herman Cain

The secretary of State explained to the Afghan president that the former CEO "started something called Godfather's Pizza" More »

Spies Want to Go Open-Source to Stop the Next WikiLeaks

Spies Want to Go Open-Source to Stop the Next WikiLeaks

A program called SureView is gaining popularity within the nation's 16 intelligence agencies More »

Countdown to the Super Committee's Cuts

Countdown to the Super Committee's Cuts

Important dates as the congressional panel looks for $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by the third week of November More »

Today in Research: Brain Size Affected by Facebook Friends; More

Today in Research: Brain Size Affected by Facebook Friends; More

Discovered: Facebook friends and gray matter, what makes waves glow, cobbling together an invulnerability suit, and materialism strikes back. About your brainy gray matter and your Facebook friends. Two of researchers favorite interest veins collide in a finding from a new study that used magnetic resonance imaging to analyze the brains of 125 undergrads and the number of Facebook friends they have.The bigger the brain, as the link goes, the more… More »

What's Happening Inside Those Shrouded Apple Stores?

What's Happening Inside Those Shrouded Apple Stores?

As it is wont to do with just about everything, Apple is being secretive about how it is paying tribute to Steve Jobs More »

Naomi Wolf Arrested at N.Y. Protest

Naomi Wolf Arrested at N.Y. Protest

The feminist author was taken into custody while demonstrating outside an event where Gov. Andrew Cuomo received an award More »

Google's Ice Cream Sandwich Will Make Android All Better

Google's Ice Cream Sandwich Will Make Android All Better

No, it's not a delectable summer treat. Ice Cream Sandwich is the jazzed up name of Google's latest Android update. More »

On Occupy Wall Street, Obama Echoes Jon Stewart

On Occupy Wall Street, Obama Echoes Jon Stewart

Both the president and the "Daily Show" host have said the protesters have a lot in common with tea partiers More »

Today in Research: Experimental Malaria Vaccine; TV as Babysitter

Today in Research: Experimental Malaria Vaccine; TV as Babysitter

The vaccine, called RTS,S, or Mosquirix, is touted for reducing the risk of African children getting infected with malaria by about half More »

The Great Facebook Privacy Disconnect

The Great Facebook Privacy Disconnect

Facebook has a bad privacy track record. People do worry about it, but just not that much. More »

Did Rick Perry Get a Discount on a Private Jet?

Did Rick Perry Get a Discount on a Private Jet?

He rented a Cessna last month, and The New York Times reports that the going rate could be triple what the governor's campaign paid More »

Mitt Romney Launches Cyber-Assault on Rick Perry

Mitt Romney Launches Cyber-Assault on Rick Perry

The former governor released a new attack site. Did his campaign buy up a slew of unclaimed anti-Perry domain names? More »

The Most Common Complaints About the iPhone 4S

The Most Common Complaints About the iPhone 4S

After initial waves of glowing reviews for the new iPhone, it's time to look at some of the kinks, and how to fix them More »

Today in Research: The True Costs of Drinking; Happiness Is Relative

Today in Research: The True Costs of Drinking; Happiness Is Relative

The Centers for Disease Control is out with a new report gauging how much money binge drinking has cost society as a whole More »

Perry's Backers Won't Let Up on Romney's Mormonism

Perry's Backers Won't Let Up on Romney's Mormonism

Conservative Christians are pushing the Texas governor's followers to make more noise about his rival's faith More »

iPhone 4S Has a Shot at Being the Fastest Selling Gadget Ever

iPhone 4S Has a Shot at Being the Fastest Selling Gadget Ever

Over the weekend, consumers bought more than four million units of the iPhone 4S, double the early sales of the iPhone 4 More »

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