With a fortune estimated to be as large as a quarter of a billion dollars, Mitt Romney is among the wealthiest men ever to run for president.

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Romney Riches Are Being Seen as New Hurdle

The dramatic scenes in England this week have brought back memories of the LA riots in 1992, where a billion dollars worth of damage was caused, with dozens killed and thousands injured.

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VIDEO: Can England learn from LA riots?

The first image from the fifth installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, has arrived online ahead of its first trailer (which also debuts online this week). In it, we see Vin Diesel (returning once again as Dominic, the head of an underground racing crew) squaring off against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who plays a relentless Federal Agent hot on the trail of the elusive racers. We’re not sure what’s being said in this scene, but if we were to guess, Diesel’s Dominic is all like “Bring it!” and Johnson’s Hobbs is all like, “I’ll take you down! You’ll see!” The franchise, which has scored almost half a billion dollars at the box office thus far, will return to screens with this fifth installment on… Read More Read Comments

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First Look: Vin Diesel and "The Rock" in ‘Fast Five’

With congressional deadlock, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could be the economy’s last hope. He plans to “unveil a program of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth a few hundred billion dollars over several months” next Wednesday, according to The…

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Fed Plans New Stimulus Measures

The UN appeals for nearly half a billion dollars in aid for Pakistan, where floods have affected almost one in 10 people.

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UN urges world to help Pakistan