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Jordan vows revenge for pilot's torture, death

CAIRO - Islamic State militants released a video appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordan vowed to avenge his death with an "earth-shaking" response.  Video | Full Article 

Oil and stocks jump in setback for dollar, bonds 6:58pm EST

SYDNEY - Oil prices were holding hefty gains in Asia on Wednesday having rallied 19 percent in just four sessions, while the U.S. dollar nursed big losses as a revival in risk appetite swept through crowded trading positions.

Reginald Hill of Occupy Cincinnati and Occupy the Hood joins a march to protest home foreclosures in the East Price Hill neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio March 24, 2012. REUTERS/John Sommers II

S&P to pay $1.5 billion over mortgage ratings

Standard & Poor's will pay $1.5 billion to resolve a series of lawsuits over its ratings on mortgage securities that soured in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis.  Full Article 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his wife Mary Pat Christie at the One Nucleus life science company headquarters in Cambridge, England, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Neil Hall

Vaccine politics: Blame science and win in Iowa

We can see, as Chris Christie pushes beyond the boundaries of establishment views on science and public health, that Iowa's exercise in grass-roots democracy has helped push GOP politics dramatically to the right.  Commentary | Full Article 

Croatian war veterans watch the television broadcast of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) verdict on genocide during the Balkan wars in Vukovar February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

U.N. absolves Croatia, Serbia of genocide

THE HAGUE - The United Nations' highest court ruled that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other's populations during the wars that accompanied the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.  Full Article | Video 

The moon is seen from New Delhi December 21, 2007. REUTERS/B Mathur (INDIA)

Looking for land on the moon? Talk to the FAA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - U.S. companies can stake claims to lunar territory through an existing licensing process for space launches through the Federal Aviation Administration.  Full Article 

The homepage to Silk Road 2.0, allegedly an underground drug market, is seen in a screenshot after it was closed by U.S. authorities November 6, 2014.  REUTERS/Staff

Silk Road operator may have never left website

NEW YORK - A U.S. prosecutor sought to dissuade jurors of believing that the man who created the underground website Silk Road abandoned the venture before authorities shut it down, saying he operated it from beginning to end.  Full Article 

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Dow rallies; Disney earnings beat

Disney's earnings came in better than forecasts; Chipotle revenue missed; J.M. Smucker buying Big Heart Pet Brands in a $5.8 billion deal. Bobbi Rebell reports.