- A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina's new "Choose Life" license plates are unconstitutional without the state making a pro-choice alternative available.
- A reprogrammed HIV virus designed to seek and destroy cancer cells has researchers excited as a young girl has been given the treatment and eliminated her terminal leukemia.
- Polls show voters want a fiscal
cliffslope deal, but that they reject both higher taxes on all Americans and cutting spending on social safety net programs. - HSBC, Europe's largest bank, will pay nearly $2 billion to settle a money laundering probe with the US Department of Justice over transactions with sanctioned nations like Iran.
- Google avoided $2 billion in global taxes in 2011 by shifting international operations or a Bermuda tax haven.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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