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Freelance 'slaves' strike back: Bloggers sue HuffPost, AOL

Before the afterglow of a $315-million windfall AOL acquisition faded, Huffington Post was in the news again; this time for wrong reasons. A prominent freelance writer and trade unionist and a group of bloggers have filed a class action suit against Arianna Huffington, the HuffPost and AOL for allegedly mistreating the unpaid writers who provided content to the site in its growth years.
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Time Warner Cable Shares Hit New 2-Year High

Shares of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) touched a new 2-year high of $73.19 on Friday. The company said it has filed a request for declaratory judgment relating to Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) cable networks.

Shutdown would put hundreds of thousands on leave

If a shutdown does begin after a Friday deadline passes, hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be furloughed, tax refunds from paper-based filers would not be processed and federal loans for small businesses and new federal home loans would not be processed, Senior Obama Administration officials said on Wednesday.

What Happens in a Shutdown?

As the Friday deadline approaches for Congress to decide on funding the federal government, past experience shows that a shutdown in the government would necessitate furloughing many employees not directly related to saving lives or protecting property, with the exception of programs which have multi-year funding such as Social Security.

Libya planned to kill civilians even before revolt started: ICC

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says that the regime of Moammar Gaddafi planned to kill civilians even before the revolt in Libya commenced as a way for the government to stave off the kind of rebellion witnessed in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt.

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