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Split Verdict In Huge Somali Sex Trafficking Case

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 05.05.2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three sta...

Women and Work -- Where to Now?

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 01.16.2012

Dr. Peggy Drexler

Regardless of where you fall on the scale of feminist ideology -- great progress to stubborn inequality -- in the arena of women and work, big shifts are afoot. The direction is clear. The destination is not. But by all indications, work and families have some adjustments ahead.

Obama Prods Deadlocked Congress

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.14.2012

WASHINGTON — Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher tax reve...

Matt Ryan Overcomes Injury To Lead Falcons To Road Win

AP | By LARRY LAGE | Posted 12.23.2011

DETROIT -- The Falcons might've found their groove in Motown. Matt Ryan ran and threw for touchdowns to give Atlanta a double-digit lead in the first ...

Tigers Ace Wins 12 Straight Game

AP | Posted 11.19.2011

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The AL Central title clinched for the Detroit Tigers, Justin Verlander has a goal – and it has nothing to do with the AL Cy Y...

193,000 Jobs: The True Cost of the Wasted $60 Billion in Iraq and Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.02.2011

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

The U.S. spends 59 percent of its discretionary budget on "defense," or $726 billion. If the deficit commission wants to cut the budget in a way that creates jobs, they should start at the Pentagon.

Lesbian Couple Unite In Nepal's First Same-Sex Wedding

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2011

DAKSHINKALI, Nepal (AP) - A lawyer and a college professor from the United States celebrated Nepal's first public lesbian wedding ceremony Monday in t...

Will Guzzardi

PHOTOS: Grocery Store On Wheels Offers A Fresh Take On Food Deserts

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 08.16.2011

In a move that exemplified Rahm Emanuel's approach to Chicago's most intractable problems, the city's new mayor sat down on Wednesday with the leaders...

John Gotti's 'Adopted Son' Returns to the Fray, Declines Lawyer's Challenge

Jerry Capeci | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Capeci

Lewis Kasman -- remember him? -- says he saved my life so I shouldn't write bad things about him. For all I know, he may be right.

Corporate Profit Margins Hit 18-Year High

Bloomberg | Whitney Kisling and Lynn Thomasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Record earnings fueled by the highest profit margins since 1993 are giving executives more leeway than ever to boost dividends as the bull market ente...

Greece Slams 'Accountability' Of Credit Rating Agenices

AP | PAN PYLAS | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Greece launched a tirade against U.S. credit ratings agencies Monday after Moody's downgraded its debt grade further below junk status,...

NASDAQ Nears Highest Level In A Decade

AP | DAVID K. RANDALL | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The Nasdaq finished within 25 points of its highest level in a decade Friday, reminding investors of a time many would rather forget: The...

Concerns Over 'Crap' Securitization Deals On Wall Street

Bloomberg | Jody Shenn | Posted 05.25.2011

he quality of commercial mortgages being packaged into bonds is declining as sales in that market soar, a Standard & Poor's analyst said at a securiti...

Ireland Credit Rating Slashed Again

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

DUBLIN — Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut its credit grade for Ireland on Wednesday and warned it could fall further because of doubts about the...

Home Prices Continue Their Descent

AP | ALEX VEIGA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011

A second wave of falling home prices is battering some cities that had escaped the worst of the housing market bust. Prices in Seattle, Charlotte, N....

Jewish Musician Debbie Friedman Dies At 59

Posted 05.25.2011

By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service (RNS) Debbie Friedman, a composer and singer whose modern melodies updated the music in synagogue services wor...

2011's Most Profitable Companies

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 07.14.2011

Wall Street analysts often believe that they know how much money large public companies will make before the companies actually post quarterly and ann...

Fund Investors Slowly Returning To Stocks

AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

BOSTON — It appears investors are beginning to get comfortable with risk again. Not only are they pulling money out of bond mutual funds at the ...

Corporate Profits Rose Faster Under Obama Than During Reagan, Clinton Eras

politico.com | JOHN MAGGS | | Posted 05.25.2011

Profits have surged 62 percent from the start of 2009 to mid-2010, according to the Commerce Department. That is faster than any other year and a half...

Ireland Credit Rating Slashed To 3 Grades Above Junk

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

DUBLIN — Moody's slashed Ireland's credit rating five notches on Friday and warned of further downgrades if the country cannot regain command of...

What 'New Normal'? S&P Predicted To Rise 11% Next Year

bloomberg.com | Alexis Xydias and Whitney Kisling | Posted 05.25.2011

The benchmark gauge for American equities will rise 11 percent from last week's close to 1,379 in 2011, bringing the increase since 2008 to 53 percent...

Many U.S. Firms Live 'In Perpetual State Of Recession' Despite Rising Profits, Productivity

Bloomberg | Craig Torres and Anthony Feld | Posted 05.25.2011

Companies slashed 8.5 million jobs during the worst recession since the Great Depression, while also slowing capital investment plans. Campbell, the w...

FDIC Takes Step Toward Cutting Use Of Credit Ratings

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have taken a first step toward eliminating the use of credit ratings in rules for banks, under a mandate of the ...

Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Leon T. Hadar

Scholars have long debated the direction that the "paradigm shift" in international relations would take. What would replace the obsolete bipolar international system and the strategic and ideological forces that had driven it?

The Battle for the Frontier -- A Historic Moment

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Rick Tumlinson

In the battle for the Frontier, the stakes are whether the United States will lead the world into space or relinquish itself to second world status by repeating the failed policies of the past.