As It Happens

Mitt Romney jokes about having a "Seinfeld" moment during introductions at Wednesday's CNN GOP debate in Arizona.

Ron Paul defends his ad calling Rick Santorum "a fake" during Wednesday's CNN debate.

Mitt Romney defends his stance on contraception against his opponents during the CNN debate.

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney answer a question about birth control from an online viewer.

Boston Globe
Ground broken on African-American museum in DC
Boston Globe
By Jacqueline Trescott President Barack Obama spoke during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall. WASHINGTON - Though the tent was crowded with living history ...
Finally, Smithsonian honors black cultureChicago Sun-Times
Smithsonian To Open Black History MuseumWISN Milwaukee
Obama says African-American museum to tell 'shared story'Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
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The Ministry of Defence is to de-classify submarine data in order to help shed light on climate change in the Arctic.

The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you ...

A day after Dow 13,000, investors took a break.Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 27.02 points to finish at 12,938.67. The day ...

The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring-buying season.Sales of previously occupied homes are at their highest level since May 2010. More first-time buyers are making purchases. ...

President Barack Obama rolled out a corporate tax overhaul plan Wednesday that lowers rates but also eliminates loopholes and subsidies cherished by the business world. A long-shot for action in an election ...

California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets.The ...

Eric Mueller's vacation started when his plane filled with smoke. Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft.Mueller loved every minute of it.Most days he runs ...

Newspaper publisher and TV station owner Media General said Wednesday that it is exploring the sale of its newspaper operations, which produce nearly half its revenue.The company said that it has received ...

A previously rejected weight loss pill won an overwhelming endorsement from public health advisers Wednesday, raising hopes that the drug from Vivus Inc. could become the first new anti-obesity medication ...

The Fuller Brush Man is calling ... on bankruptcy court.Fuller Brush Co. is filing for bankruptcy protection, decades after its fleet of salesmen popularized door-to-door selling in the U.S.The company, ...

Ford Motor Co. will pump $3.8 billion into its global pension plans this year as it tries to get them closer to fully funding their obligations.The company also raised the annual pay for its 16 directors ...

Kansas City Star
Tech giants agree to new privacy rules
The Guardian
Six of the world's top consumer technology companies – including Apple, Google and Microsoft – have agreed that apps will provide greater privacy disclosures before users download them so as to protect consumers' personal data, California's attorney ...
Calif. Pledges Better Mobile Privacy DisclosuresABC News
Obama Looks to Web Industry for Online Consumer Privacy StandardBusinessWeek
Voluntary guidelines for Web privacy backed by Obama administrationWashington Post
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Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists did not break speed of light - it was a faulty wire
Telegraph.co.uk
Physicists who shocked the scientific world by claiming to have shown particles could move faster than the speed of light have admitted it was a mistake due to a faulty wire connection. It was Albert Einstein who proposed more than 100 years ago that ...
Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?Reuters
Reuters Science News SummaryChicago Tribune
Not so fast: Loose wire led to stunning, faster-than-light particle findingFox News
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Brisbane Times
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Clarksville Online
Pasadena, CA – Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.
Scientists get kick out of deep space 'buckyball' discoverymsnbc.com
Kennedy Space Center at 50: A spaceport in transitionWashington Post
Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar discRegister
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Bloomberg
RBS Posts Loss Twice as Big as Expected
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Royal Bank of Scotland Posts a Wider-Than-Estimated Loss Royal Bank of Scotland Posts a Wider-Than-Estimated Loss Mike Wilkinson/Bloomberg The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) logo hangs from a road bridge close to the company's ...
RBS Records $1.2 Billion Loss After Greece ChargesCNBC.com
Royal Bank of Scotland Posts a Wider-Than-Estimated LossBusinessWeek
RBS reports £2bn loss, fourth since bailoutBBC News
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