Video game maker Activision scores big gains in 3Q

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Video game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. scored points in the third quarter with a performance that topped analysts’ forecasts.The results announced Wednesday encouraged management to predict more good times in the crucial holiday shopping season when the company is counting on video game aficionados to snap up the latest edition...

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Rihanna unveils Chris Brown duet “Nobodies Business”

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B star Rihanna unveiled a duet entitled “Nobodies Business” with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown on Tuesday, three years after Brown was charged with assaulting her.The song was part of an official track list that Barbadian singer Rihanna tweeted to her followers for her upcoming album “Unapologetic,” and comes after weeks of speculation...

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Novartis heart failure drug cuts death by 37 percent: study

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An experimental Novartis AG drug to treat hospitalized acute heart failure patients reduced deaths by 37 percent compared with a placebo and appeared to be safe, according to data from a late stage clinical trial presented on Tuesday.The drug, serelaxin, which is a form of a human hormone that relaxes blood vessels and eases stress...

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Novartis heart failure drug cuts death by 37 percent: study

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An experimental Novartis AG drug to treat hospitalized acute heart failure patients reduced deaths by 37 percent compared with a placebo and appeared to be safe, according to data from a late stage clinical trial presented on Tuesday.The drug, serelaxin, which is a form of a human hormone that relaxes blood vessels and eases stress...

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Voting Goes From Inalienable Right to Bragging Right

A woman I went to high school with voted for Barack Obama today. I know this because she posted a picture of her ballot to Facebook (FB). She quickly deleted it—perhaps because, according to the Citizen Media Law Project, doing so in Illinois, where she lives, is actually illegal—but not before five other people took self-portraits of themselves wearing...

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Officials: New mass graves found in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Up to 10 new mass graves have been discovered near the site of a July attack on a camp for displaced people, officials said Tuesday, amid allegations that initial casualty totals were downplayed to mask killings carried out by the national army.Rights groups claim summary executions were carried out by the Republican Forces...

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HANNITY ON TWEET

“I learned a big civics lesson today.” — Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity, who tweeted a picture of his filled-out ballot (for Mitt Romney, natch), only to learn that appeared to break the law in New York state.— David Bauder — http://twitter.com/dbauder ___EDITOR’S NOTE — Election Watch shows you Election Day 2012...

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Rare John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton up for auction

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – John Lennon held out the promise he could bring out more musical greatness in legendary guitarist Eric Clapton in a letter that could fetch as much as $ 30,000 when it is sold at auction next month, the organizers of the sale said on Monday.The signed, hand-written letter by the Beatle, who died in 1980 at the age of 40, is one...

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Appeals court questions Arizona’s late-term abortion ban

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal appeals court panel on Monday sharply questioned lawyers defending an Arizona law that bans late-term abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy except in medical emergencies, which opponents say is the toughest in the United States.In San Francisco, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard...

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Appeals court questions Arizona’s late-term abortion ban

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal appeals court panel on Monday sharply questioned lawyers defending an Arizona law that bans late-term abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy except in medical emergencies, which opponents say is the toughest in the United States.In San Francisco, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard...

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