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Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies at 63

USA TODAY -
By Steve Jones, USA TODAY Donna Summer reigned as the queen of disco in the late '70s and early '80s when the music itself ruled the dance floor and the charts.

Facebook close to becoming a $100-billion company

Los Angeles Times -
By Walter Hamilton The social-media goliath is expected later today to price its historic initial public stock offering at $38, which would make Facebook the second-largest IPO in US history.

Super PAC abandons plan to link President Obama to controversial reverend ...

Boston.com -
By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent After a proposed advertising campaign linking President Obama to the inflammatory Rev. Jeremiah Wright was leaked and subsequently condemned by Mitt Romney, the super PAC that conceived it decided to spike the ...

Ratko Mladic war crimes trial plunged into chaos

The Guardian -
The Hague war crimes tribunal, already under fire for its slow pace in dealing with Balkan war crimes cases, was thrown into confusion on Thursday by the revelation that lawyers prosecuting the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic had failed to turn ...

Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Saves $67 Million in Tax by Leaving US

Washington Post -
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin will save at least $67 million in federal income taxes by dropping US citizenship, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the company's stock price.

US Senate Republicans block Iran sanctions vote

Jerusalem Post -
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER. JPOST CORRESPONDENT GOP senators say they need more time to study revisions to proposed sanctions on Iran's oil sector; Democrats expected unanimous approval ahead of May 23 nuclear negotiations.

Greek Leftist Leader Throws Down Gauntlet on Debt

Wall Street Journal -
By JAMES ANGELOS And ALKMAN GRANITSAS ATHENS—The head of Greece's radical left party says there is little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country and if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts, throwing down a gauntlet that could increase ...

Obama nominates ambassador to former pariah state Burma

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By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY President Obama announced Thursday that he's nominated the first US ambassador to Burma in 22 years and will ease investment restrictions on the former pariah state.

NATO Members to Discuss Burden Sharing

Voice of America -
Dozens take part in a variety of protests leading up to this weekend's NATO summit in Chicago, May 16, 2012. WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations meet in Chicago this weekend to address two major challenges ...

Zimmerman defense fund tally: $15424

USA TODAY -
By Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY Supporters of the man accused of killing Trayvon Martin have donated $15424 to his legal defense fund in less than two weeks, according to a website set up by his lawyer.

Mitt Romney, RNC take in $40 million in April

Detroit Free Press -
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks April 18, 2012, in Charlotte, NC / CHUCK BURTON/AP By Jackie Kucinich and Catalina Camia Mitt Romney and the Republican Party raised a combined $40.1 million in April, ...

Census shows whites lose US majority among babies

Atlanta Journal Constitution -
By HOPE YEN AP WASHINGTON - For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the US, capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

Recommended: Edwards' conduct was 'shameful' but not illegal, attorney tells ...

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Greece downgraded deeper into junk

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By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney May 17, 2012: 3:20 PM ET Fitch downgrades Greek government debt and calls country's exit from eurozone 'probable' if pro-austerity coalition doesn't win in June vote.

-- Bankia, government denies the bank is losing deposits

MarketWatch -
MADRID -- The Spanish government moved Thursday to quell fears of massive deposit withdrawals in Bankia SA (BKIA.MC) as its shares were pummeled by an unconfirmed local media report that depositors were withdrawing savings after the government rescued ...

EU Commission chief confident euro zone and Europe will do what it takes to ...

Washington Post -
UNITED NATIONS - The head of the European Union Commission told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that he is “fully confident” the 17 countries using the euro and all European institutions will do whatever is necessary to overcome the current ...

Biden: 'Romney seems to want it both ways' on auto bailout credit

Los Angeles Times -
By Michael Memoli MARTINS FERRY, Ohio -- Joe Biden on Thursday mocked Mitt Romney for attempting to claim credit for the rebound of the American auto industry, linking the GOP hopeful's past criticism of the Obama administration's rescue plan with his ...

Democrats Unveil Anti-Romney 'Economics' Ad Campaign [VIDEO]

Patch.com -
By Tony Schinella Supporters of President Barack Obama rolled out a new television ad which highlights business strategies at Mitt Romney's former company that closed companies and put Americans out of work.

Comcast scraps broadband cap, moves to usage-based billing

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By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech May 17, 2012: 3:55 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Comcast on Thursday decided to get rid of its controversial 250 gigabyte-per-month cap for its broadband customers, replacing it with a usage-based billing system.

Google Knowledge Graph: The Birth of a Siri Rival?

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PCWorld -
Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a Siri-like virtual assistant.

Chuck Brown dies: The 'Godfather of Go-Go' was 75

Washington Post -
Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk's percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

American Idol 2012 Top 3 Elimination: Who Will Be Sent Home Tonight?

American Idol Net -
Tonight on American Idol 2012 the season 11 Top 2 singers will be revealed as one last singer will be eliminated and sent home. Either Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips, or Jessica Sanchez is about to fall just shy of the big finale event next week.

Suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has filed a defamation lawsuit ...

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The lawsuit filed Thursday in US District Court in New Orleans claims Goodell has made false statements about Vilma while discussing the NFL's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints.

Should Kobe Have Taken The Final Shot

ESPN -
Mario Chalmers missed a 3-pointer in the final seconds Tuesday as the Heat lost to the Indiana Pacers. ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy discusses Lakers-Thunder, Los Angeles' late-game execution, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, ...

Blue Jays' Lawrie drops appeal of four-game suspension

USA TODAY -
TORONTO (AP) - Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie has dropped his appeal of a four-game suspension by Major League Baseball for throwing a batting helmet that bounced and hit an umpire.

At Roger Clemens trial, Hardin hammers at Brian McNamee

USA TODAY -
By Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens' defense attorney Rusty Hardin hammered away at government witness Brian McNamee, seeking to ravage his credibility during a third day of cross-examination Thursday in US District Court.

Paralyzed woman masters mind-controlled robotic arm

Christian Science Monitor -
Cathy Hutchinson is one of two patients undergoing a trial of the BrainGate neural interface, a system designed to transmit paralyzed patients' thoughts into commands.

What will commercial spaceflight cost?

Fox News -
NASA has given SpaceX $381 million to develop a private rocket to replace the space shuttle -- and that's just the tip of the money iceberg.

Can life be longer in the coffee fast lane?

Albany Times Union -
AP In this Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008 photo, espresso flows into a cup at a coffee house in Overland Park, Kan. A large US federal study concludes people who drink coffee seem to live a little longer.

"Good" HDL cholesterol may not protect heart after all, study suggests

CBS News -
(CBS News) We've heard it all before: There's "good" cholesterol, called high-density lipoprotein (HDL), that provides protective benefits against heart attacks and then there's "bad" LDL cholesterol, which raises risk for heart problems in high levels ...

New SC mom hospitalized with flesh-eating bacteria

The Associated Press -
By MEG KINNARD, AP - 1 minute ago COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - Days after giving birth to twins, a South Carolina mother has been hospitalized for what doctors say is a rare flesh-eating infection.

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