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Meg Whitman stepped down from the boards of Procter & Gamble Co., eBay Inc. and Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. effective Dec...Whitman is seriously considering a run for governor of California, a person familiar with the matter said, adding that an announcement could...

US President George W Bush will designate nearly 200,000 square miles (518,000 sq km) of the Pacific ocean on Tuesday as a protected region, White House officials said, making the areas hands-off for oil drilling or other extraction procedures. Bush,...

The Twitter accounts of US president-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears and other prominent figures were hacked on Monday and fake messages sent out in their names on the micro-blogging service. Twitter founder Biz Stone, in a post on the...

Fifty-four percent of U.S. teens frequently discuss high-risk activities, including sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, using MySpace...Moreno and Dr. Dimitri Christakis of Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington said that as social networking Web...

For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda...The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda's...

Spending on prescription drugs in 2007 showed the smallest increase in more than four decades, driven by rising use of low-cost generic drugs, chain stores offering $4 prescriptions and more drug safety warnings that may have dampened consumer demand, the...

Komen for the Cure received a 28-year prison sentence, with three years fixed, for embezzling more than $170,000 from the nonprofit over a nine-month period. "I spent it...Guinard, 36, of Meridian, told 4th District Court Judge Thomas Neville during her...

Alabama officials have selected a Cincinnati company for a $1.7 million two-year contract to make Internet broadband service available in all areas of the southern state. Currently, dial-up Internet access is available using telephone lines in most parts of the...