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Doug Hoffman conceded the New York congressional election to Democrat Bill Owens yet again today. The Conservative Party candidate said he won't challenge the results, despite the urging of supporters. With the absentee ballots counted, "the results re-affirm the fact that Bill Owens won,” Hoffman said. The muted wording is...

Unemployment will remain higher than normal for years to come, Fed officials predicted today. Even at the end of 2012, the rate is forecast to be between 6.8% and 7.5%—a decent turnaround from the current 10.2% but still about 2 points higher than the figure in...

Facebook revamped its stock structure today in a move sure to heat up speculation that it's going public. The company will have two classes of shares, A and B, reports the Wall Street Journal . Everyone currently on board will hold B shares, with 10 times the voting power of A...

Seinfeld is probably gone for good, but if it did come back, PopEater runs down the status quo of the characters, based on the Curb Your Enthusiasm faux-reunion: Elaine: Used Jerry’s donated sperm to impregnate herself, and now wants him to be a father figure for her daughter. After a...

Stocks almost managed to recover from steep losses suffered early in the day but ended in the red. Among the factors: China signaled it's ready to tighten credit, and September home prices rose but less than expected, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dow closed down 17 points at 10,...

He didn't tip his hand on many troops it would take, but President Obama said today that he intends to "finish the job" in Afghanistan. He promised to unveil a strategy after Thanksgiving that will "dismantle and degrade” the enemy while making sure that "al Qaeda and its extremist allies...

ABC canceled an appearance by Adam Lambert on Good Morning America planned for tomorrow in the wake of his steamy performance at the AMAs. After receiving 1,500 complaints over Lambert's sexy moves, the network said it was concerned about "airing a similar concert so early in the morning.” Lambert...

Speculating about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s real cause of death has been a popular sport for years, and now two authors have a provocative theory: brain cancer. The shifting opinions are well documented: FDR’s own doctor, who at first likened the deadly brain hemorrhage to a “bolt of lightning,” admitted in...

The alleged Photoshopping of Demi Moore on the cover of W appears to go quite a bit further than just a missing chunk of hip. The Frisky brings our attention to the clever detective work of Pop Culture Madness , which has unearthed a photo of runway model Anja Rubik wearing...

The five-phase assembly poll for the total 81 seats in Jharkhand begins on Wednesday. In the first phase, there are 470 candidates contesting in 26 assembly constituencies. Following are the key constituencies going to polls in the first phase.

Vinita Kamte, wife of 26/11 martyr Ashok Kamte, released a book on her slain husband on Tuesday. Ashok was the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). Vinita has co-authored the book on Ashok with journalist Vinita Deshmukh. The book is titled ‘To the Last Bullet’.

In the first phase, there are 470 candidates contesting in 26 assembly constituencies. The candidates include four former ministers, six former Lok Sabha MPs and the outgoing assembly's speaker Alamgir Alam.

With a view to prevent any untoward incident following tabling of the Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of Babri Mosque in the Parliament on Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh government has banned staging of any kind of function either to welcome or condemn it.

For the government, the Liberhan Report is a windfall. The contents of the report indict the BJP’s top leaders, and in doing so, have forced the Opposition to scatter just days after it presented a united front.