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Financial institutions that repaid billions of dollars in federal aid can award unlimited bonuses, and thereby, also increase their tax deductions.


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AP – Football fans will be able to watch college bowl games on Sinclair stations after all, as the broadcaster and the Mediacom cable TV operator agreed to extend by eight days their negotiations over fees.

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President Obama was briefed Thursday on the preliminary results of two reviews into the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American passenger jet.


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Even if you’re not planning to be in Times Square, what you need to know about this year’s celebration.


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FILE - In this July 4,2007, file photo, Tiger Woods tees off on the first tee during the AT&T Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. AT&T Inc. said Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world's top golfer, who's taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)AP – AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world’s top golfer, who’s taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.

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Engineers are fine-tuning the site to get visitors to stay longer and treat it more like regular old television.


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The city’s overall homicide rate has dropped, but domestic homicides have increased 67 percent this year.


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Russia’s top space researchers will hold a meeting to plan a mission to deflect 99942 Apophis, an asteroid that could conceivably hit the Earth two decades from now.


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This March 10, 2009 photo shows Transportation Security Administration program analyst and instructor Sherrie Soto, left, from Washington, D.C., standing in the 'millimeter wave' unit as TSA security officers learn how to instruct airline passengers through the screening process at Salt Lake International Airport in Salt Lake City. High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because of privacy concerns over the machines' capability to see through clothing. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Leah Hogsten)AP – Travelers still getting used to removing their shoes in public and pouring shampoo into tiny bottles may soon have to adjust to something new in the airport security line — giant machines that that scan their bodies for anything a terrorist might use to cause harm during a flight.

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A computer monitor displays a full-body scan during a demonstration of passenger screening technology by the Transportation Security Administration, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, at the TSA Systems Integration Facility in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP – The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people’s sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers’ clothing.

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In this advertisement released by Time Warner Cable, a warning that FOX has threatened to pull the plug on Time Warner Cable customers at midnight, New Year's Eve, unless the cable company gives in to demands for massive price increases.(AP Photo/Time Warner Cable)AP – Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game could disappear from the TVs of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other markets in a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox television network is demanding.

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In this Dec. 27, 2009 photo, a detail of a blank check is shown in New York. Most payments can now be made electronically, so why use checks? (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP – It’s been nine months since I’ve written a check.