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Labor board member accused of leaks resigns

A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday.

Why that flat Facebook IPO isn't so bad after all

The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?

Polls: Greek's pro-austerity parties gaining

Three weeks before Greece has another election, opinion polls published Sunday indicated the election will result in no single party gaining a majority in parliament, but two parties that favor implementing Greece's bailout programs could be able to form a coalition government.

In this photo taken on Sunday, May 13, 2012, teachers seen through a mirror as a dirty first aid box hangs on a wall in the teachers' room at...
Millions in global aid for Iraq sits unspent

Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don't work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind narrow desks.

In this film image released by Sony Pictures, Tommy Lee Jones, left, and Will Smith star are shown in a scene from "Men in Black 3." (AP...
'Men in Black 3' takes down 'Avengers' with $55M

The suits have knocked off the superheroes at the box office.

Bankia's president, Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, speaks during a press conference at the bank's headquarters , in Madrid, Saturday, May 26, 2012....
Spain's Bankia treats $29B state aid as investment

Troubled Spanish lender Bankia will treat the ¬23.5 billion ($29.5 billion) in state aid it will receive in the country's biggest-ever bank bailout as an investment meant to make a profit for the Spanish government and not as a loan, its president said Sunday.

Driving season begins, as does griping about gas

It's Memorial Day weekend and our national obsession with the price of gasoline is in focus once again.

Some states asking the tax man to get tougher

Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a

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FILE  - In a Dec. 9, 2011 file photo specialist Michael Gagliano, foreground right,  works at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange....

Stocks fall on Wall Street as Spanish bank teeters

Another flare-up in Europe's debt crisis knocked U.S. markets lower Friday. This time, it was more trouble at a major Spanish bank.

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