GOP rivals attack Santorum in crucial Arizona debate
MESA, Arizona -Rivals heaped criticism on surprise front-runner Rick Santorum in a debate among Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday, hoping to stall his surge at a pivotal period in the 2012 campaign. Full Article
U.S. advisers back experimental obesity pill
SILVER SPRING, Maryland - Experimental obesity drug Qnexa won the backing of U.S. health advisors on Wednesday, raising hopes for approval of the first prescription weight-loss pill in 13 years.
Obama urges corporate tax cut
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first detailed plan to cut the corporate tax rate. Full Article | Video
Judge strikes down contraception mandate
A federal judge ruled that Washington state cannot require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives if to do so violates their religious beliefs. Full Article
Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail
VIENNA/TEHRAN - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West. Full Article
Assad forces renew barrage on Syria's Homs
AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. Full Article
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A brief window of opportunity for tech IPOs
NEW YORK - A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's $5 billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies. Full Article
Chavez surgery weighs on Venezuela election
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters. Full Article
Greece races to pass bailout laws amid protests
ATHENS - Thousands of protesters angry at punishing spending cuts poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square as Greek lawmakers rushed to pass laws needed to secure payment of a second bailout for the debt-laden country. Full Article | Video
Elusive turnaround at HP
Feb 22 - Summary of business headlines: Hewlett-Packard has yet to staunch the bleeding as computer and printer sales to consumers fall; Toll Brothers posts surprise loss; Existing home sales hit 1-1/2 year high; White House wants to cut corporate taxes; Wall Street sees modest decline. Conway G. Gittens reports.
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What made Deep Throat leak?
A new book makes the persuasive case that Mark Felt’s Watergate leaks, which demonstrated his classic counterintelligence training, were only meant to push Richard Nixon into making him FBI director. Patriotism wasn’t really part of it. Commentary
The book of jobs
As the title of his definitive biography reminds, "Steve Jobs" speaks for itself. The book is very much a product of its time, which is to say, a product of its subject’s fastidious narcissism and the broader culture’s limitless capacity for nurturing it. Commentary
Don’t obsess about GDP measures
Gross domestic product, as a measure of prosperity, suffers from what might be called the fallacy of precision. The human meaning of prosperity simply cannot be reduced to numbers. Supposedly exact measures generally confuse more than they illuminate. Commentary
Google’s unhealthy cookie habit
By intentionally bypassing the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, Google has decided for all of us that our Web activity will be more closely tracked. They opted us in, without asking, and now they have some explaining to do. Commentary
You’re not paying the tax rate you think you are
The portion of your income that you pay in taxes is your “effective tax rate,” but for most of us – the middle class and above – that rate is often lower than politicians say because of an incomplete measure for income. The cost of civilization is not as high as you’ve been told. Commentary
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How corporate tax reform could level the playing field
Large corporations are privy to tax laws that most small-business owners are not, and the U.S. is at a crucial fiscal juncture where things need to change. David Cay Johnston dissects corporate tax policy in this edition of Decoder. Video
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