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Costa Concordia: Wave of Inevitable Lawsuits Begins

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The first of what will surely be many inevitable lawsuits against the Costa cruise line over the sinking of the Concordia have been started. Two U.S. law firms are planning to sue on behalf of the passengers of the cruise ship.
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South Carolina Primary: 5 Things to Look For

The South Carolina primary is on Saturday, and only four candidates -- Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum -- remain. Here are five things to look for when the results come in.
Capitals crush Canadiens to top division

Capitals Crush Canadiens to Top Division

An opportunistic offensive performance helped the Washington Capitals overcome the struggling Montreal Canadiens 3-0 on Wednesday to move top of the Southeast Division.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Chiu listens as Jay Nath, city's chief innovation officer, speaks during a protest of SOPA at City Hall in San Francisco

Lawmakers Flip on Piracy Bills Protested on Web

Some members of the Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet on Wednesday, turning Wikipedia dark and putting black slashes on Google and other sites as if they had been censored.
Anthony Chiasson, who co-founded the Level Global Investors hedge fund, exits United States Court in lower Manhattan

Feds Charge 7 in $62M Dell Insider-Trading Case

U.S. prosecutors charged seven people, described as a circle of friends who formed a criminal club, with running a $62 million insider trading scheme - the latest salvo in a years-long probe of suspicious trading at hedge funds.
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Bill Weir's Life Saving Story: Three Other Reporters Whose Assignments Have Saved Lives

Bill Weir, the co-anchor of ABC's Nightline, made a shocking discovery while working on a story about full body scans this week: he himself is at major risk of having a heart attack. Weir's on-air diagnosis is very rare, but he's not the only reporter whose assignment has turned intensely personal: three other reporters have all saved lives with their coverage, and for two of them, their reasons were intensely personal.
Immigration Laws for 2012

End of an Era for GOP and Latinos?

If Mitt Romney grabs the GOP presidential nod, he would be the first Republican candidate in decades to take hard line on immigration policies that Latinos support.
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Nancy Pelosi: GOP Knows Romney Can't Beat Obama

The House Minority Leaders claimed even his own party doesn't believe Mitt Romney can win in November 2012, which is why support for him has been so half-hearted. But Pelosi had even less regard for his fellow candidates, who she called third tier representatives that show the Party's disconnect from what Pelosi asserts are the true carriers of the American Dream: the Democrats.
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Cruise Operators' Shares Fall on Ship Disaster

Shares of cruise operator Carnival Corp. plunged 15 percent on Tuesday after a ship operated by its unit struck a submerged rock and keeled over off the coast of Italy late on Friday.
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Infants Learn Language by Lip Reading, Could Assist in Autism Diagnosis

Infants learn language not merely by listening to what other people say but also by lip reading, according to a recent research.The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday has defied conventional beliefs that babies learn to speak through sound alone.

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