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G.E. Profit Beats Expectations


Excluding the impact from the sale of NBC Universal, General Electric’s quarterly revenue also increased 4 percent, as the company increasingly returned to its industrial roots.

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US Air Strikes Deal With AMR’s Unions


US Airways Group said it has made deals with three unions at American Airlines, contingent on a possible merger of the two airlines.

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Common Sense: Unfairness Permeates the Tax System


A reporter’s income was higher than 2010. Yet his tax rate went down. Wasn’t the opposite supposed to happen?

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Zimmerman surrenders passport in Travyon Martin case


A deputy sheriff escorts Zimmerman into the courtroom to make his first appearance on second degree murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin at the Seminole County Correctional Facility in SanfordSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman surrendered his passport to a Florida court on Friday during a bail hearing in the case of the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara, seeking to get Zimmerman released pending trial on a charge of second-degree murder, handed in the passport as a sign Zimmemran would not flee the country should he be released. The hearing in Seminole County Court in Sanford, Florida, continued with O'Mara putting questions to Zimmerman's wife Shellie via telephone. ...


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Third of four escaped prisoners caught in Kansas


KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - A convicted double-murderer who escaped from a central Kansas county jail with three other convicts this week was recaptured late on Thursday, officials said. Santos Carrera-Morales, 22, was caught in Russell, Kansas, about 240 miles west of Kansas City, said Jeremy Barclay, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections. One escapee remains at large. Russell is about 75 miles west of the Ottawa County jail where Carrera-Morales and three other inmates escaped before dawn on Wednesday. ...
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Colorado lights up pot debate by blazing regulatory trail


To match Feature USA-MARIJUANA/COLORADODENVER (Reuters) - At a Denver dispensary for medical marijuana, state inspector Mark Brown makes his usual checks, verifying that employees wear name-tag licenses and the video surveillance system works. The store is a laid-back place with a popcorn machine, a "Reefer Madness" movie poster and plenty of pot, sold both mixed into candy and as buds. Brown mingles with the staff, among them a tattooed man rolling joints in a side room. Fellow inspector Paul Schmidt, formerly an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, checks on the facility's marijuana-growing operation. ...


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Terrorism Suspicions Lead to 3 Arrests at Heathrow


The suspects, residents of Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham, were arrested Thursday night as they arrived from Oman.

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