Facebook is set to begin trading today on the Nasdaq index. The social network company is ringing the opening bell remotely from its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Priced at $38 per share, the initial public offering is $104 billion, the third-largest in U.S. history. Here are five things to know about Facebook’s IPO: Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Five things to know

For “homicide,” but denied his choice of lawyer.

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Blind Activist’s Nephew Charged

Nearly half of babies in Malawi are affeced by stunted growth because of malnutrition.

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The greatest athletes are all about controlling the body with the mind, and for a long time, Chamique Holdsclaw could do that. She could hover around the basketball rim and create any shot, her imagination pulling the strings of her arms and legs. Then one morning, her mind quit on her. She couldn’t make herself put on a pair of shoes, much less elevate. She lost track of three straight days sitting on a couch in the dark, eating Fruity Pebbles. The devastating onset of depression was “my little secret,” she says. Read full article > >

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Chamique Holdsclaw confronts her ‘little secret’ of depression

The White House’s cybersecurity coordinator said Thursday that he is stepping down at the end of this month after a 2 1 / 2 -year tenure in which the administration has increased its focus on cyber issues but struggled to reach agreement with lawmakers on the best way to protect the nation’s key computer networks from attack. Read full article > >

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White House’s cybersecurity official retiring

The US state of Texas is likely to have executed an innocent man due to careless handling of the case, a report by US law students claims.

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‘Innocent man’ executed in Texas

A federal judge’s ruling could allow many more plaintiffs to join a lawsuit challenging the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy.

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City Room: Judge Allows Class-Action Status in Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit

The withdrawal of one of two massage therapists from a sex battery lawsuit against John Travolta “completely vindicated” the actor, Travolta's lawyer said Tuesday.

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Travolta accuser drops suit

General Motors threw cold water on the buildup to Facebook’s red-hot initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will stop paid advertising on the social network, just days before Facebook’s market debut. Read full article > >

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Ahead of IPO, Facebook loses GM ads

The House is off next week, and that means, even in an election year, members will be required to travel in search of elusive facts. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) is leading a group taking off Friday for a week in Taiwan and South Korea, looking at three days in Seoul and three in Taipei. Read full article > >

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Two groups of lawmakers are Asia-bound over the House break

President Obama’s health-care law is expected to expand health insurance to 32 million Americans over the next decade. Health policy experts anticipate that the wave of new insurance subscribers will lead to a spike in demand for medical services. Read full article > >

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Nurse practitioners look to fill gap with expected spike in demand for health services

In about two dozen states across the country, the insurance marketplaces at the heart of the 2010 health-care law remain in limbo, with Republican governors or lawmakers who oppose the statute refusing to act until the Supreme Court decides its constitutionality. Read full article > >

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Republican state officials stall on setting up health insurance marketplaces

The former brother-in-law of the actress and singer Jennifer Hudson was convicted on Friday of murdering her mother, brother and young nephew.

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William Balfour Guilty in Killing of Hudson’s Family

FEW WALL STREET institutions enjoy greater prestige than JPMorgan, whose $2.3 trillion in assets make it the largest U.S. commercial bank. Jamie Dimon , the 56-year-old chief executive, is an industry hero for building a “fortress balance sheet” and steering JPMorgan through the mortgage meltdown relatively unscathed. Of late, Mr. Dimon has been deploying his influence to resist tighter federal bank regulation — specifically, the “Volcker rule,” a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that would ban federally insured banks from speculating in hedge funds and the like. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: JPMorgan’s mishap bolsters case for Volcker rule

Scotland Yard calls in the police watchdog to review fresh allegations of corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.

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New probe on Lawrence corruption