The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee over possible violations of insider-trading laws, according to individuals familiar with the case. Read full article > >

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Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices. Read full article > >

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Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing are planning to black out their services Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act by showing users the bill’s effect on Web companies. These companies object to language in the bills, which are aimed at stopping online piracy on foreign Web sites, that grant the U.S. government the right to block entire Web sites with copyright-infringing content on them from the Internet. Read full article > >

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It usually costs about $70 to replace an exhaust fan, but federal watchdogs said a General Services Administration employee sentenced this week to more than two years in prison once paid a contractor $2,150 for the job. In return, the contractor slipped Eric Minor an envelope stuffed with $1,000 in cash. Read full article > >

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GSA worker gets over 2 years in prison for kickback scheme

TULSA, Okla. — One of the nation’s largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners’ assistance and other services. The Cherokee Nation acted this week after its Supreme Court upheld the results of a 2007 special vote to amend the Cherokee constitution and remove the slaves’ descendants and other non-Indians from tribal rolls. The 300,000-member tribe is the biggest in Oklahoma, although many of its members live elsewhere. Read full article > >

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Rail services between Cardiff and Newport are suspended after a person is hit by a train, with disruption affecting other services.

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Train disruption after incident

Wolf Trap , to many, denotes commercial pop at the Filene Center. But the Wolf Trap Opera is a different animal: a tiny, can-do opera company focused not on presenting big stars but on cultivating future ones. In Wolf Trap’s 40 years, singers from this company have colonized the opera world as artists and administrators. A raft of them returned to the Filene Center on Wednesday for a gala concert, the highlight of Wolf Trap’s 40th anniversary, of a type and caliber even the Kennedy Center hasn’t offered for years. The singers care so much about the place they even donated their services. Read full article > >

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At Wolf Trap Opera gala, enough star wattage to power operahouse 40 more years

The economic downturn made funding harder to come by for many capital-intensive biotechnology companies, prompting some to outsource drug development and other services they might otherwise have kept in house. The result has been a boost for a cottage industry of service providers that for years has made money by working through challenges that are largely unique to life sciences companies. Rockville-based Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, for example, unveiled a 72,000-square-foot facility Friday where its researchers plan to help other firms develop new drugs. The 50-year-old business counts 100 staff members and plans to add 30 more at the new site. Read full article > >

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The hits keep coming. Kristin Davis-the self-proclaimed former madam famous for allegedly supplying escorts to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer-says Dominique Strauss-Kahn also used her services. Strauss-Kahn, who was head of the International…

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Several gaming news outlets are reporting that Sony’s PlayStation Network password reset system has a weakness that makes it vulnerable to hackers. The company installed the new system after reinstating some of the services targeted in an online attack that caused a 26-day outage and a massive data breach of two of its networks. Nyleveia.com , a gaming site, reported that it has demonstrated that hackers will be able to reset a PSN users’ password using only an account’s current e-mail address and the account holder’s date of birth — both pieces of information believed to have been taken in the original breach. Read full article > >

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Several gaming news outlets are reporting that Sony’s PlayStation Network password reset system has a weakness that makes it vulnerable to hackers. The company installed the new system after reinstating some of the services targeted in an online attack that caused a 26-day outage and a massive data breach of two of its networks. Nyleveia.com , a gaming site, reported that it has demonstrated that hackers will be able to reset a PSN users’ password using only an account’s current e-mail address and the account holder’s date of birth — both pieces of information believed to have been taken in the original breach. Read full article > >

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Reports: Sony PlayStation Network still vulnerable to attack

Sony CEO Howard Stringer says he cannot guarantee the security of his company’s videogame network. The company shut down many of the services of its PlayStation Network when a security breach compromised the personal information of more than 100…

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The CIA has told two Senate committees that their members will be allowed to see post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden, if they wish. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services committee have been invited to make…

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The CIA has told two Senate committees that their members will be allowed to see post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden, if they wish. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services committee have been invited to make…

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The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing next week on the crisis in Libya

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