The actions include freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in this country.
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According to one reader, chivalry is dead, or at least should be. It is awkward, inefficient and inconvenient.
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A man pulled from Lake Michigan in the North Side Edgewater neighborhood Sunday morning was pronounced dead after he was taken to a nearby hospital.
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The United States Constitution was once a model for charters around the world, but its influence is waning, according to a new study.
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After weeks of protests, Emil Boc, Romania’s prime minister, resigned Monday, the latest European leader to fall victim to a mood of public outrage over austerity measures and stagnant growth.
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In a stunning repeat of 2008’s come-from-behind win in the Super Bowl, New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning again led a scoring drive with just minutes left in the game to vault his team into the lead. This time, the New England Patriots may not have come into the game undefeated, though they were still the favored team to win. But as Giants safety Kenny Phillips told The New York Times, he and his teammates weren’t concerned. “When Eli got the ball back at the end of the game, we all just knew.” Read full article >>
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Super Bowl ads are a longtime tradition, but this one from Best Buy caught our eye, discovered . The ad features innovators who have been changing the mobile technology landscape — a major tool in conquering “Big Data.” Read full article >>
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Three separate attacks on Chicago Police within a wild 24-hour period were mercifully unsuccessful, authorities say. But a trio of defendants now face felony charges in connection with the unrelated attacks Friday and Saturday. They began at lunchtime Friday, when Jenkins Cooper, 40, allegedly fired four shots at an FBI agent and Chicago cops as they executed a search warrant on his Englewood home. The shots Cooper allegedly fired from a revolver at his house on the 7300 block of South Wood all missed, and he came outside with his hands up soon after, prosecutors said Sunday. “I didn’t know …
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The fatal stabbing of a second-grade teacher in a Naperville nightclub was reportedly sparked by a snide comment about the alleged murderer drinking beer from a wine glass — leaving family, friends and even prosecutors struggling to make sense of the violence.
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The Great Recession carried special pain for black women like Jane Ladson. She had always been the one her family turned to when they needed help, and she didn’t hesitate to give it. She helped pay for weddings and rent. She made room for her nephew when her brother died of AIDS. And even now in her 50s, she took in a baby that wasn’t her own. Read full article >>
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Police in west suburban Riverside believe a man sought by Wisconsin authorities after he fled from a work release camp there may return to the Chicago area to hide out with relatives or acquaintances.
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A man--and then the firefighter who rescued him--were trapped in a Loop condo high-rise elevator for some 3½ hours Sunday night.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Alberto Contador is set to lose one of his three Tour de France titles after being banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday for failing a dope test during the 2010 race.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway, said Monday his massacre was necessary to prevent his country's cultural destruction.
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A Naperville city councilman is calling for tougher enforcement of liquor laws after the weekend stabbing death of an elementary school teacher at a downtown Naperville bar.
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For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime extravaganza a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. is likely to be the most remembered piece of the show.
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Eurostat put Greece's debt at 159.1 percent of gross domestic product in the third quarter of 2011, as austerity measures crimp economic growth.
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An appeals court ruled on Monday that Alberto Contador, a three-time winner of the Tour de France, used a performance-enhancing drug when he won the race in 2010.
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Plenty of school reformers say that if 5 to 10 percent of teachers in the United States are fired each year, then U.S. standardized test scores would compete with the top-achieving nations. It’s not true, but that doesn’t stop them from saying it. Well, now we learn that teachers are no longer the only professionals who are being targeted for wholesale firing. Read full article >>
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After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.
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The rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas said on Monday that they had formed an interim unity government led by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president.
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Ron Paul’s political views are unusual, and, as a closer look at his life reveals, unusually constant, shaping not only his career in Congress but also how he has lived his life.
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Four people were killed this morning when a wrong-way driver smashed head-on into another vehicle on Interstate 80 near south suburban Hazel Crest, authorities said.
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Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
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