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Sherrod plans to sue Breitbart

Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Woman charged in France over babies' bodies

French prosecutors said Thursday they charged a woman with murder after she admitted giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period in northern France.

In defense of reality TV

You've heard all the criticisms.

Cooking fries? Cleaning hospitals? Executives reflect on their first job

Decades before becoming president of McDonald's USA, Jan Fields cooked French fries at one of the fast-food franchise's restaurants.

Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species

Seismic cultural shifts about 10,000 years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality so subversive and threatening that for centuries, it has been silenced by religious authorities, pathologized by physicians, studiously ignored by scientists and covered up by moralizing therapists.

New Wall Street rules pit SEC vs. the media

One of Wall Street reform's littlest known provisions is getting big attention for giving a government agency a possible loophole for avoiding journalists' requests for information.

What's so scary about Elizabeth Warren?

Elizabeth Warren doesn't look or sound scary. She's a 61-year-old Harvard Law School professor from Oklahoma who has written personal finance books, some with her daughter.

Apple may soon be worth more than Exxon

Better watch your back Exxon Mobil.

Reform brings a renewed focus on short-term results

While much has been made out of the sheer heft of the 2,300-page behemoth known as the Dodd-Frank Act, it's a mere 26 pages that address the corporate governance and compensation issues that will have a profound effect on public companies and their investors.

Public data snatched from 170 million Facebook profiles

Public but personal details from more than 170 million Facebook profiles were harvested from the site and made available in a downloadable torrent file this week.