| Written by ![]() in 970 Google+ circles Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago By SHAYNDI RAICE and RANDALL SMITH Facebook Inc. could file papers for its initial public offering as early as next week, people familiar with the matter said, as anticipation mounts for what is likely to be one of the biggest debuts for a US company. |
| Los Angeles Times - 27 minutes ago Mitt Romney has pulled ahead of Newt Gingrich in Florida with a nine-point lead, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. 'I think if Romney wins this, it's over for Newt,' one pollster says. |
| New York Times - 30 minutes ago SAQBA, Syria - If the scene here on Friday was anything to judge by, the armed opposition to the Syrian government was making inroads and had won control of this town at the doorstep of the capital, Damascus, and perhaps of several other neighborhoods, ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 11 minutes ago Fire officials said there was a slight delay in getting to the home of actress Demi Moore because of confusion over her address. A 911 call released on Friday shows there was uncertainty about where to send paramedics on Monday night. |
| Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago AP Peyton Manning and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay insist they are just fine after a week filled with complaints and comments suggesting a rift had developed following one of the most miserable seasons in team history. |
| Reuters - 55 minutes ago By Laura L. Myers | SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a ... |
| New York Times - 2 hours ago BAGHDAD - Since the United States military withdrew from Iraq in the middle of last month, 434 Iraqis have been killed in attacks across the country, according to security officials, one of the highest tolls for that amount of time in the past few ... |
| MiamiHerald.com - 28 minutes ago Passengers who suffered no physical injury from the grounding of the Costa Concordia are being offered a settlement of $14460. Lawsuits filed Friday put that figure in the shadows. |
| Demonstrators protest against the rightist fraternity WKR, which is holding a celebratory ball Jan. 27, 2012 -- International Holocaust Remembrance Day -- in Vienna. |
| New York Times - 21 minutes ago MOUNT DORA, Fla. - Newt Gingrich is happy to talk about Reaganomics or his plan for an “environmental solutions agency” and almost any other issue under the sun, or moon for that matter. |
| Los Angeles Times - 37 minutes ago The state's air board issues new rules to automakers as part of its effort to cut greenhouse gases. An employee parks a Toyota gas-electric hybrid automobile in a row of similar cars at a dealership in Los Angeles. |
| Washington Post - 1 hour ago ROY, Utah - The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane. |
| Reuters - 29 minutes ago By George Georgiopoulos and Karolina Tagaris | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its private creditors head back to the negotiating table on Saturday to put together the final pieces of a long-awaited debt swap agreement needed to avert an unruly default. |
| New York Times - 1 hour ago The stock market closed mixed Friday, after the government reported that economic growth was slower at the end of last year than economists expected. |
| Los Angeles Times - 25 minutes ago The Republican candidates outline their views in back-to-back speeches before the Hispanic Leadership Network. Rick Santorum also plays up his interest in Latin American policy. |
| Washington Post - 4 hours ago Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian , has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three ... |
| Boston.com - 1 hour ago By Donna Cassata AP / January 27, 2012 CAMBRIDGE, Md.—President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats for an election-year fight, urging them to work with Republicans if they show some willingness to put politics aside but telling the rank and file to ... |
| Palm Beach Post - 1 hour ago Get updates on the latest Lotto drawings plus coverage of the new multi-state Powerball game. Winning numbers More than 300 men and women with ties to Florida have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| New York Times - 18 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO - It started five years ago after a young engineer in San Francisco sketched out a quirky little Web tool for telling your friends what you were up to. |
| Jon Rubinstein, late of NeXT, FirePower, Apple, and Palm, has resigned from his position at HP, where he endured the mismanagement and eventual overboarding of Palm's webOS mobile operating system. |
| BusinessWeek - 2 hours ago By Sara Forden Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- US lawmakers asked the Federal Trade Commission whether changes announced this week by Google Inc. to its privacy policy violate terms of a 20-year settlement the company reached with the agency last year. |
| Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago Apple Inc.'s chief executive responded to a wave of negative attention to conditions at overseas factories that make its products, saying the insinuation that Apple doesn't care about the welfare of its workers is "offensive. |
| Editor's note: Watch the interview with Seal on Friday night. "Piers Morgan Tonight" airs at 9 ET weeknights on CNN. |
| Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago "Welcome Back, Kotter" television star Robert Hegyes died Thursday, giving millions of Americans pause to reflect back in time to 1975, when Epstein, Vinnie Barbarino and the other "Sweathogs" ruled. |
| New York Times - 2 hours ago “One for the Money,” the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle to park itself in the multiplexes, is also the title of a best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich. |
| By Kara Warner (@karawarner) If your impressions about the new action thriller "Man on a Ledge" are based on the film's very-literal title, you're very likely correct in assuming to know a decent amount about the film before entering the theater. |
| USA TODAY - 2 hours ago By David Richard, US Presswire Carmelo Anthony (7) will not play Friday when the Knicks visit Miami because of thumb, wrist and ankle problems, and is not expected in the lineup when New York heads to Houston on Saturday. |
| New York Times - 32 minutes ago MELBOURNE, Australia - There were big hints of a power shift at this Australian Open. There were grueling, long-form semifinals bristling with uncertainty. |
| Washington Post - 10 minutes ago OTTAWA - Daniel Alfredsson will have a big challenge on his hands in the All-Star skills competition - trying to unseat four-time hardest-shot champ Zdeno Chara. |
| New York Times - 48 minutes ago Tiger Woods moved into contention Friday with a three-under-par 69 in the second round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in the United Arab Emirates, putting him two shots behind the leader, Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark. |
| Chicago Tribune - 30 minutes ago Chael Sonnen's fight against Michael Bisping on Saturday night at the United Center isn't the main event. But don't tell him that. |
| Space.com - Jan 26, 2012 by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist They can be mean and nasty, and they can mess up our planet big time. They are near-Earth objects, dubbed NEOs, celestial flotsam such as asteroids or comets that can, and have, scored direct hits ... |
| NASA's prolific planet-hunting spacecraft has hit the jackpot again, discovering 11 new planetary systems with 26 confirmed alien planets among them. |
| Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago Erin Brockovich has announced she'll be looking into an outbreak of Tourette's-like symptoms among a group of high school students in western New York, to see if they have any environmental causes. |
| Globe and Mail - 9 minutes ago When Vanessa Halstead was starting out, struggling to land modelling jobs, the solution seemed simple enough: a pair of $6000 double D silicone implants to augment her B-sized breasts. |
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