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  • Yen Climbs as Japan Signals Negative Impact From Further Losses

    Updated 7 minutes ago

    The yen climbed versus a majority of its 16 major peers after Japan’s Economy Minister Akira Amari said further losses in the currency would negatively affect people and the government’s job is to minimize that.

  • Senators Beat Penguins in Two Overtimes After Bruins Top Rangers

    Updated 12 minutes ago

    The Ottawa Senators rallied to beat the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 in two overtimes after being half a minute away from a three-games-to-none deficit in their National Hockey League playoff series.

  • U.S. Immigration Plan Encounters Business-Labor Rift

    Updated 6 minutes ago

    Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill.

  • H-1B Models Strut Into U.S. as Programmers Pray for Help

    Updated 11 minutes ago

    Ravi Shanker makes weekly pilgrimages to Chilkur Balaji temple outside Hyderabad, India, asking for a little help on immigration from an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

  • Microsoft Updates Xbox as Apple to Facebook Gain in Games

    Updated 22 minutes ago

    Microsoft Corp. is revamping the Xbox to fend off a breed of competitors ranging from Apple Inc. to Facebook Inc. Those companies were nowhere in gaming when the software maker debuted its last version five years ago.

  • Pritzker Yields Party Role Reversal on Offshore Trusts

    Updated 18 minutes ago

    Republicans defended Mitt Romney against criticism from Democrats that he avoided taxes by keeping money stashed overseas. Those roles are now reversed with the disclosure that President Barack Obama’s pick to run the Commerce Department does the same thing.

  • Clearwire Investors Anticipate Higher Bid as Vote Looms

    Updated 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

    Clearwire Corp. shares are trading above Sprint Nextel Corp.’s $2.97-a-share takeover bid, a sign investors anticipate a last-minute sweetening of the deal.

  • White House Warns Against IRS ‘Fishing Expedition’

    Updated 4 minutes ago

    President Barack Obama is facing a make-or-break week as he tries to seize control of three scandal story lines that could upend one of the top priorities of his second term: revising the nation’s immigration laws.

  • Physicals at $2,500 Lure Executives With Thorough Scans

    Updated 7 minutes ago

    Standard physicals are, well, pretty standard. During a visit geared more toward detecting disease than preventing it, your doctor makes you cough and checks your numbers. If there’s an abnormality -- your blood pressure has spiked or your liver enzymes are elevated -- it’s your schedule that suffers as you’re shuttled between specialists.

  • NTSB Defends Study Preceding Chinatown Bus Safety Sweep

    Updated 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is defending itself against accusations it skewed a study that preceded the shutdown of 26 so-called Chinatown bus operations in the Northeast.

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