NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Texas Instruments is eliminating 1,700 jobs, as it winds down its mobile processor business to focus on chips for more profitable markets like cars and home appliances.Texas Instruments said in September it would halt costly investments in the increasingly competitive smartphone and tablet chip business, leading Wall...
'30 Rock' heroine Liz Lemon to wed this month
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Liz Lemon is getting married and you're invited.Fans of "30 Rock" might have reasonably assumed that Lemon, the harried TV producer played by Tina Fey, would ride out the series' seventh and final season as a perennial bachelorette unlucky in love. But Fey, who is also the creator and producer of the NBC comedy, clearly thought otherwise.In the "30 Rock" episode airing Nov. 29, Lemon...
BP to pay US billions for Gulf spill
Label: Business Oil giant BP has agreed to pay a criminal penalty in the billions of dollars for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a...
Nov
14
2 LAPD officers guilty of perjury in drug case
Label: World Two Los Angeles Police Department officers lied under oath during a drug possession case four years ago, a Los Angeles County...
Dave Matthews Band pledges $1M for Sandy relief
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The Dave Matthews Band is giving $1 million to help Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts.The band announced Wednesday that the Nov. 30 opening show of its winter tour at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., will be a benefit concert. All ticket and merchandise sales will go to the Bama Works Sandy Relief Fund, established at the Community Foundation of New Jersey.Sandy's assault...
Well: Thanksgiving From Jerusalem
Label: HealthIf you are looking to add some international flair to your Thanksgiving table, Jerusalem is a good place to start.The city’s diverse Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities have created unpredictable and exciting culinary combinations, the London chef and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi writes in the stunning new cookbook “Jerusalem.” The book, which Mr. Ottolenghi wrote with his friend and business...
Wholesale prices fell 0.2% in October
Label: Business Wholesale inflation fell in October as a big drop in gasoline and other energy prices offset a rise in the cost of food. Wholesale...
Nov
13
Secret donation hindered campaigns, GOP advisors say
Label: World SACRAMENTO — An $11-million campaign donation that was secretly routed through an obscure Arizona group might have hurt the...
Storm volunteers mingle with stars at Glamour fest
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Sandra Kyong Bradbury was star struck. She had just spied Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a few feet away."How can you top that?" asked Bradbury, a New York City neonatal nurse who had helped evacuate infants from a hospital that lost power during the height of Superstorm Sandy. She was amazed that she was being honored at the same event as a Supreme Court justice — the annual...
Lance Armstrong Cuts Officials Ties With His Livestrong Charity
Label: HealthIn the wake of being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping, Lance Armstrong last week cut all official ties with Livestrong, the charity he founded 15 years ago while he was treated for testicular cancer. On Nov. 4, he resigned from the organization’s board of directors; he had previously stepped down as the chairman of the board Oct. 17. He has distanced himself from...
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