Your 401(k) plan may be looking better this morning after a solid gain last year. Expect a big stock market bounce after the House passed the Senate’s fiscal cliff agreement. Futures shot up after the drama finally ended late Tuesday. Economists had warned hundreds of...


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Read more: Stocks Surge After 'Cliff' Deal

Car rental company Avis Budget Group purchasing Zipcar in a deal worth nearly $500 million


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Read more: Avis Buying Zipcar in Deal Worth $491M

Accused Aurora, Colo., theater shooter James Holmes will be in court today where a judge will determine if prosecutors and defense attorneys are ready to proceed with a January 7 preliminary hearing. If both sides tell judge William Sylvester that they are not ready to...


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Read more: Accused Colo. Shooter to Appear in Court

Angry villagers bury slain Pakistani teachers, aid workers as authorities search for killers


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Read more: Pakistan Buries Slain Aid Workers

Kids – from newborns to teenagers – are learning the terms down dog, sun salutation and more in kinds-only yoga studios and even in their classrooms. It's also one of the only non-competitive sports available.


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Read more: More Kids Turning Into Yogis

A Grammy-nominated rapper whose music files disappeared when his laptop was stolen on tour was ordered to pay nearly $2 million to a German man who claims to have found the computer in a forest.


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Read more: Rapper Must Pay $1.2M for Lost Music

Stocks surge on first trading day of new year on US 'fiscal cliff' deal


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Read more: World Stocks Up After 'Cliff' Deal

South Africa: Mandela rests at home as doctors closely monitor his condition


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Read more: Nelson Mandela 'Taking it Easy' at Home

Pilot David Zehntner was flying his personal plane from North Carolina to his Florida home when he decided to fly over his house and saw something unusual. “He observed a silver truck with white camper in his driveway and lowered his altitude to get a...


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Read more: Pilot Catches Thief at His Home During Fly-By

The wicked witch of the tax code is almost dead. By passing the “fiscal cliff” deal hammered out between the White House and Senate Republicans, Congress has finally found a permanent patch to the Alternative Minimum Tax, a piece of tax code that has morphed...


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Read more: Is the AMT Patch Finally Dead?