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  • CNBC Anchor Mark Haines Dies Unexpectedly Wednesday, 25 May 2011 | 10:33 AM ET
    Mark Haines

    Veteran journalist Mark Haines, a fixture on CNBC for 22 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening. He was 65 years old. CNBC President Mark Hoffman called Haines a "building block" of the financial networks' programming.

  • Intrade CEO Delaney Dies on Mount Everest Tuesday, 24 May 2011 | 5:34 PM ET

    Intrade's founder and CEO, John Delaney, has passed away while attempting to climb Mt. Everest, according to a statement on the firm's website.

  • After Disaster Hit Japan, Electric Cars Stepped Up Sunday, 8 May 2011 | 11:02 PM ET
    Residents travel on the opened road in front of the 4,724-tonne freighter "M.V. Asia Symphony", grounded by the recent tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture on May 6, 2011.

    With oil refineries out of commission and clogged roads slowing gasoline deliveries, Japan turned to electric cars to help provide needed services after the earthquake and tsunami in March. The New York  Times reports.

  • Osama bin Laden

    Computers taken from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound could reveal a motherlode of information on Al Qaeda donors and has probably already dealt a serious blow to Al Qaeda fund raising, according to a Middle East law expert.

  • Life in Limbo for Japanese Near Nuclear Plant Monday, 2 May 2011 | 6:14 AM ET
    A man undergoes a screening test for possible nuclear radiation at screening center about 35 kilometers away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

    Stone tablets in Japan, some more than six centuries old, are inscribed with messages about tsunamis, the New York  Times reports.

  • Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone Wednesday, 20 Apr 2011 | 11:45 PM ET
    Rescue workers check the remains of a tsunami devestated house

    Stone tablets in Japan, some more than six centuries old, are inscribed with messages about tsunamis, the New York  Times reports.

  • Remington Model 700 rifle

    The manufacturer of the most popular hunting rifle in the world has been aware of potential safety problems with the gun since before it went on the market—60 years ago.  Newly uncovered documents, including memos and drawings by the gun’s inventor, show company officials discussing the potential problem, as well as whether a design change is worth “the high expenditure required to make the conversion.”

  • Mark Madoff

    Wall Street veteran Kenneth Langone said the apparent suicide of Mark Madoff, Bernard's oldest son, is the "greatest tragedy" to follow Bernard Madoff's fraud.

  • Financier Bernard Madoff with his wife Ruth Madoff and son Mark Madoff during November 2001 in Long Island, NY.

    In addition to Mark Madoff's children being sued—three days before his suicide—by Bankruptcy Trustee Irving Picard, Mark Madoff himself was implicated in another lawsuit Picard filed on Friday.

  • Maine Police Stop Using Remington Rifles Friday, 29 Oct 2010 | 2:08 AM ET
    Remington Model 700 rifle

    The police department in Portland, ME, has become the latest law enforcement agency to stop using a popular sniper rifle over concerns the gun can go off without the trigger being pulled.

  • Remington Model 700 rifle

    The manufacturer of the world’s most popular hunting rifle has been wrestling for decades with questions about whether the gun is safe, and at least twice considered a nationwide recall of the gun, according corporate insiders and internal documents revealed in a ten-month CNBC investigation.

  • Why Guns Can Only Be Recalled by Manufacturer Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 | 3:48 PM ET
    Remington Model 700 rifle

    Internal company documents show that at least twice, the Remington Arms Company considered a nationwide recall of its popular 700 series rifles, but decided against it despite thousands of complaints and dozens of lawsuits over inadvertent discharges.

  • Inside Remington Rifle's Controversial Trigger Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 | 1:55 PM ET
    Remington Model 700 rifle

    At the heart of the decades-long controversy over the Remington 700 series is a piece of metal that is roughly the length of a paper clip.

  • Profiting From Pre-Paid Funerals Friday, 30 Jul 2010 | 7:50 PM ET

    This is Cramer’s top play in the post-mortem market.

  • Will Boomers Help or Hurt Funeral Industry? Thursday, 20 May 2010 | 10:40 AM ET
    Funeral

    At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, director Woody Allen said about death, "I'm strongly against it." For those in the funeral industry, death, or lack thereof, has been no laughing matter for almost a decade. Funerals and cremations are at a 20-year low.

  • Overweight and Obesity Thursday, 6 May 2010 | 12:52 PM ET

    Take our quiz and find out how much you know about one of the most serious public health problems in the nation.

  • Former Beneficial CEO Tied to Massive Tax Probe Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | 10:45 AM ET
    Finn M. W. Caspersen

    No one can know exactly what Finn M. W. Caspersen, a prominent philanthropist and the heir to the Beneficial Corporation fortune, was thinking when he decided to take his life on Labor Day.  But he apparently harbored a secret: He was suspected of dodging many millions in federal taxes.

  • Stocks End Flat as Investors Take Breather Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 | 5:17 PM ET

    Stocks ended flat Wednesday as investors shrugged off solid demand from today's five-year Treasury auction and some encouraging economic reports.

  • Stocks Don't Flinch After Treasury Auction Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 | 3:57 PM ET

    Stocks were flat Wednesday as investors shrugged off solid demand from today's five-year Treasury auction and some encouraging economic reports.

  • Stocks Recover After Home-Sales Report Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 | 10:10 AM ET

    Stocks rebounded Wednesday after a sharp jump in new-home sales.

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