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NEW YORK (AP) — Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors said Monday. Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer,...

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Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. SMALL FLORIDA CITY WONDERS WHO SNAGGED WINNING POWERBALL TICKET Residents in the small Florida city of Zephyrhills are wondering who hit the historic $590.5M Powerball jackpot. The winner still hasn't...

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. The space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder to its onboard laboratories later this week for analysis. Sunday's drill was the first major activity by Curiosity...

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The FBI said Monday that no one has been arrested after last weeks' discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin in Spokane, but the agency remained tight-lipped about the investigation and a weekend raid at a downtown apartment building. "No...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in...

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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has ordered the former head of a failed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly to wear a GPS monitoring device while he awaits trial. The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/13GereF ) reports that St. Charles County Circuit Judge Daniel Pelikan issued...

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey state senator has turned away from a plan to tax drivers by the mile instead of at the gallon at the gas pump. State Sen. Jim Whalen said at a hearing Monday that he was instead calling for a fee to be paid by owners of electric cars. He says the fee should...

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Yahoo has reached a deal to buy online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the latest acquisition under CEO Marissa Mayer. Yahoo is paying mostly cash for Tumblr and expects to complete the deal by the end of the year. Here are key events involving Yahoo Inc. and its performance in recent...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida shoppers this August will get to buy computers without having to pay sales taxes. Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed into law a bill reauthorizing the state's popular back-to-school sales tax holiday. This year's sales tax holiday will take place from Aug. 2 to...

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Omaha World-Herald. May 19, 2013. Separation of powers It's called "separation of powers," and there's a good reason for it. The legislative branch makes laws. The executive branch carries them out. The judicial branch interprets the law and applies it to the facts of cases brought to the...