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*White House says law forces across-the-board cuts. WASHINGTON, Feb 24- With five days left before $85 billion is slashed from U.S. government budgets, the White House issued more dire warnings about the harm the cuts will do to Americans, breaking down the loss of jobs and services to each of the states.
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Microsoft said a small number of its computers were infected with malware in an attack similar to the recent ones on Apple and Facebook. There was no evidence of customer data being affected.
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Feb 22- Washington Post Co posted a fourth-quarter loss on Friday after taking a $111.6 million writedown of one of its troubled educational businesses, Kaplan Test Preparation.
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U.S. stock index futures were higher across the board Friday after stocks logged their sharpest two-day drop this year and following comments from St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard that the central bank's aggressive easy money policy will stay for a "long time."
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be seeking to put a strong U.S.-Japan alliance on full display in the face of potential threats in Asia when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.
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NEW YORK, Feb 21- One way to divide people is into foxes and hedgehogs. That combination of Pollyanna and Cassandra is perfectly embodied in the multifaceted mind of Al Gore.
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Hackers have hit many U.S. companies, but few have admitted it. Now, some are going public, reflecting new ways of judging the risks and benefits of such moves.
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China is the site of the most cyber-aggression, and in many instances, the biggest opportunity for many businesses. On Tuesday, The New York Times ran a piece highlighting the link between anti-U.S. cyberattacks and the Chinese military.
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*Facebook says it is victim of "series of attacks'. Feb 15- Facebook Inc said on Friday that it been the target of a series of attacks by an unidentified hacker group, but it had found no evidence that user data was compromised.
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*Facebook says it is victim of "series of attacks'. Feb 15- Facebook said on Friday that it been the target of a series of attacks by an unidentified hacker group, but it had found no evidence that user data was compromised. "Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," the company said in a blog post. "
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Feb 15- Whenever the phrase "our crumbling infrastructure" passes the lips of a politician or appears in the pages of a newspaper, I change the password on my checking account and move my wallet to the front pocket of my jeans.
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According to a study by John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics and Brian Bell of Oxford University, the share of national income earned by the top 1 percent in the United States surged to 18.3 percent in 2007, from 8 percent in 1979. In Britain, the trend was almost identical: The top 1 percent received 15.4 percent of the national income in 2007 compared with 5.9 percent in 1979. And these figures exclude capital gains.
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*U.S, China urged to hold regular annual summits. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have in recent days complained of large-scale cyber attacks believed to have originated from China.
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Twitter and the Washington Post are the latest media companies to reveal that they too were victims of cyber attacks.
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NEW YORK, Jan 31- Is oil like red meat or is it like tobacco? This morality play is being acted out with the greatest intensity in the fight over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 25- One of the National Rifle Association's senior lobbyists said an ad by the nation's leading gun-rights group after a school shooting in Connecticut that refers to President Barack Obama's children was "ill-advised."
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WASHINGTON, Jan 25- One of the National Rifle Association's senior lobbyists said an ad by the nation's leading gun-rights group after a school shooting in Connecticut that refers to President Barack Obama's children was "ill-advised."
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Jan 21- One of the great transformations of our age is the liberation of women. In the developed Western economies, the rise of women has picked up such pace that some have begun to declare, as Hannah Rosin did in her acclaimed 2012 book of the same title, "The End of Men."
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NEW YORK, Jan 15- A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media.
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*Obama, Congress face another fiscal confrontation. WASHINGTON, Jan 8- Just two weeks before his second inauguration, President Barack Obama is acting as if he believes he has a big mandate for his next term. The actions reflect the growing confidence of a president who, without the need ever to seek re-election, now feels freer to stand up to a new Congress.