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MasterCard shows off mobile payments (photos)
MasterCard is readying technology and applications that will let people use their phones to pay for things.
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Kobe Bryant passes Shaquille O'Neal on NBA all-time scoring list - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Kobe Bryant passes Shaquille O'Neal on NBA all-time scoring list
Los Angeles Times
O'Neal congratulates Bryant via Twitter after the Lakers guard takes over the fifth spot on the scoring list with a long jump shot in the second quarter of a 95-90 loss to Philadelphia. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant chases down a loose ball during the game ...
2011-12 NBA seasonUSA TODAY
Williams and Sixers beat Bryant and LakersPhiladelphia Inquirer
Lou Williams puts damper on Kobe's big night as Sixers beat LakersPhiladelphia Daily News
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Knicks lose two All-Stars but beat Jazz, 99-88 - Los Angeles Times
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Knicks lose two All-Stars but beat Jazz, 99-88
Los Angeles Times
Unheralded point guard Jeremy Lin has another big game, helping New York win after Carmelo Anthony suffers a groin strain and Amare Stoudemire leaves the team because of the death of his brother. Associated Press Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 28 ...
Lin scores 28, carries short-handed Knicks againWall Street Journal
Knicks' Lin Fires Up Garden With 28 Points in First StartNew York Times
Knicks' new star Lin nets 28 to light up Garden againNew York Post
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Clippers win but also suffer a big loss: Chauncey Billups - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Clippers win but also suffer a big loss: Chauncey Billups
Los Angeles Times
Chris Paul leads LA past the Magic in an overtime thriller at Orlando, 107-102, but starting guard Chauncey Billups suffers an Achilles' tendon injury and it's feared he could be lost for season. Clippers power forward Blake Griffin looks to drive to ...
Paul scored 29 points in Clippers win against MagicOrlando Sentinel
Clippers top Magic in OT, lose Billups to injury.ESPN
Clippers' Billups helped off the courtMiamiHerald.com
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LaMarcus Aldridge: Aldridge scores 39 points in overtime loss - Rotoworld.com
Boston.com
LaMarcus Aldridge: Aldridge scores 39 points in overtime loss
Rotoworld.com
LaMarcus Aldridge scored 39 points on 14-of-28 shooting (11-of-11 from the foul line) with six rebounds, three assists, one steal, and one block in the Blazers' 111-107 overtime loss to the Thunder on Monday. Aldridge clearly blocked Kevin Durant's ...
Warriors ready to face Durant, NBA's quietest starSan Francisco Chronicle
Thunder-Warriors PreviewCBSSports.com
Blazers Insider: Lamarcus Aldridge falls short at closing timeOregonLive.com
Houston Chronicle
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Authorities: Powell kids struck with hatchet before blaze - CNN International
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Authorities: Powell kids struck with hatchet before blaze
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff Puyallup, Washington (CNN) -- The tragic tale of two boys killed along with their father in an apparent murder-suicide took another gruesome turn after authorities said the children suffered hatchet wounds before dying of carbon ...
Grandparents of 2 dead boys saw ominous signs in Josh PowellLos Angeles Times
Report: Father of man who killed sons in suicide house fire 'person of ...Fox News
Kids in Washington home blast suffered chop woundsReuters
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Appeals court to rule on California's Proposition 8 - CNN International
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Appeals court to rule on California's Proposition 8
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff San Francisco (CNN) -- A three-judge pannel with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution. After a two-week trial in 2010, ...
Court to rule on California gay marriage banReuters
Long-awaited ruling on CA gay marriage ban dueSTLtoday.com
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Three players to watch at Pebble Beach - ESPN (blog)
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Three players to watch at Pebble Beach
ESPN (blog)
By Justin Ray Beautiful isn't the adjective one would use to describe some of Bill Murray's wardrobe choices. Before Spencer Levin last week, who was the last player to lose a 6-shot lead with 18 holes to play on the PGA Tour?
Annapolis grad Billy Hurley playing on PGA TourSan Francisco Chronicle
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Actor Bill Murray was perfect distraction ...Santa Cruz Sentinel
Tim Kawakami: Time is right for Tiger Woods at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-AmSan Jose Mercury News
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Maldives leader quits after police revolt
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned Tuesday after members of the nation's police force revolted against his government.
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Iran: US assets ban "antagonistic," will have no impact - Reuters
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Iran: US assets ban "antagonistic," will have no impact
Reuters
By Parisa Hafezi | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday denounced as "an antagonistic move" a tightening of US sanctions targeting Tehran's central bank and giving US banks new powers to freeze Iranian government assets, and said it would have no impact.
Jews With Ties To Iran And Israel Feel ConflictedNPR
Tehran 'ready to impose oil ban' on EuropeansJerusalem Post
Iran dismisses latest US sanctions as 'psychological war'Platts
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Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states - Boston.com
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Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states
Boston.com
By Philip Elliott AP / February 7, 2012 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Republican Rick Santorum is planning some last-minute campaigning in each of the three states holding presidential contests Tuesday. The former Pennsylvania senator is set for a morning ...
Romney looks to squelch Santorum's late riseKansas City Star
Messy contests in Nevada, Iowa raise questions as several states prepare to ...Washington Post
Romney intensifies fight for social conservativesThe Associated Press
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Appeals court to rule on Proposition 8
A three-judge pannel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.
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Obama should amend birth-control order - TheDay.com
Telegraph.co.uk
Obama should amend birth-control order
TheDay.com
If the Obama administration's goal was to come up with a policy decision that in one fell swoop could reinforce the worst fears about the Affordable Care Act, while at the same time damaging the president's re-election chances in some key toss-up ...
Catholic outcry over Obama administration's birth control decision could be ...Fox News
Romney Says Obama Infringing Upon ReligionKMBC Kansas City
Bishop Galante urges protest of health care policyCherry Hill Courier Post
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Maldives leader quits amid unrest
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigns after weeks of demonstrations and a mutiny by some police officers.
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Amid Debt Crisis, A Trail Of Broken 'Promises'
Financial writer Philip Coggan traces the current global financial crisis to the 1970s when the U.S. went off the gold standard. In his book Paper Promises, Coggan says governments will have to choose whether to keep their promises to their creditors or to their citizens.
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Canon overhauls 24-70mm lens, stabilizes 24mm and 28mm primes
One of Canon's most popular lenses gets better optics, coatings, and bokeh--but costs $1,000 more and doesn't get image stabilization. New wide-angle prime lenses do get it, though.
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Hey, Gisele: Leave the football to Tom! - FOXSports.com
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Hey, Gisele: Leave the football to Tom!
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Jen Floyd Engel covered local sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1997 and became a columnist in 2003. Sports opinions? She's never short of them. And love her or hate her, she'll be just another one of the boys. Follow her on Twitter or like ...
New York Giants like chances of repeatingFox News
Coughlin plans to be back with Giants in 2012Wall Street Journal
Undervalued Giants dealt long odds to double downNew York Post
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China's Heir Apparent Rekindles Early Ties To Iowa
China's Vice President Xi Jinping is coming to America. Next week, he'll meet with President Obama at the White House. He'll lead a trade delegation to California. And he'll also make a stop in Muscatine, Iowa. Xi visited the town (population 22,886) in the 1980s, as part of an agricultural mission.
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Drought Ravages Farms Across Wide Swath Of Mexico
Mexico is facing one of its worst droughts in decades. Government officials say more than half of Mexico's 31 states are affected, and in some areas farmers haven't been able to harvest crops for two years in a row. Mexico's federal government is pledging more than $2 billion to help.
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In U-turn, Obama backs lucrative fundraising drive - AFP
AFP
In U-turn, Obama backs lucrative fundraising drive
AFP
WASHINGTON — In a key twist to the 2012 election, US President Barack Obama has reversed course and will encourage rich Democratic donors to back a fund that can raise unlimited millions for his reelection bid. Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina said ...
Obama gives blessing to a super PACWashington Post
Obama Yields in Marshaling of 'Super PAC'New York Times
Obama campaign urges fundraisers to back super PACThe Associated Press
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