Postage rates jumped Sunday for the first time in two and a half years as the U.S. Postal Service hopes to generate more revenue amid historic losses. First-class postage stamps now cost 45 cents each, a price jump that officials anticipate will generate an additional $888 million in annual revenue. The rate increase does not affect the use of Forever stamps purchased before Sunday. Read full article > >

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Stamp prices go up as postal labor talks reach an impasse

Court documents assert that Sub-Lt. Jeffery Paul Delisle, who worked in key military intelligence centers, began spying four and a half years ago.

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Canadian Naval Officer Accused of Sharing State Secrets

Over the past two and a half years, thousands of workers, villagers and children have been found to be suffering from toxic levels of lead exposure, mostly caused by pollution from battery factories.

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Lead Poisoning in China: The Hidden Scourge

It has existed for just three and a half years but the forces charity Help for Heroes is about to reach a fundraising total of £100m.

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VIDEO: Help for Heroes set to raise £100m

You might think that a massive financial collapse that imperiled the nation’s economy, cost taxpayers billions, and destroyed further billions in wealth might be fertile ground for prosecution. But two and a half years after Lehman Brothers collapsed,…

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Few Penalties for Banks in Financial Crisis

Ken Starr, the accountant whose A-list clients once included Oscar-winner Natalie Portman and Martin Scorsese, has been sentenced to seven and half years in prison for creating a $60 million Ponzi scheme. Starr pleaded guilty in September to wire…

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Celebrity Accountant Heads to Jail

Forced at gunpoint this weekend to clean out a lot of old paper files in anticipation of some home improvements, I ran across some articles and obituaries I had saved following the death, a little more than five and a half years ago, of the late, great Ann Richards, former governor of Texas. read more

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Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial

Plenty of careers in America begin with sex tapes, but not in Indonesia: Nazril “Ariel” Irham, the lead singer of a band called Peterpan and the country’s biggest pop star, has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for sex tapes with his…

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Indonesian Star Sentenced for Sex Tapes

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was freed from seven and a half years of house arrest and was greeted at the gate of her compound by thousands of supporters.

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Burmese Dissident Is Freed After Long Detention