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Boost for first-time buyers as buy-to-let landlords' profits are slashed in crackdown on mortgage interest tax relief

07/09/2015 17:40
It will hit middle-class landlords who have a sole buy-to-let property right through to professional landlords with bigger portfolios, who sit in the highest tax bracket.   Some experts believe the move could also force landlords to hike rents to compensate for the blow, which would...

Google Unit Apologizes For 'Ingress' Nazi Concentration Camps

07/07/2015 17:06
A startup, born inside Google, has issued an apology for the inclusion of Nazi concentration camps in its augmented reality game Ingress.   Ingress, developed by Google's Niantic Labs, is a multiplayer mobile game that tasks players with tracking down sources of energy leaking through...

Photographer Catches the ISS Flying Past the Moon

07/03/2015 17:50
Using a little bit of math and a lot of patience, anyone can watch the International Space Station go flying past the Moon. And if you’ve got a DSLR and a telescope handy, you can save that moment in a stunning photo.   Amateur photographer Dylan O’Donnell captured the image above of the...

Chris Christie’s Path to Relevance

06/30/2015 21:24
Chris Christie is highly unlikely to win the nomination. The reasons, like his moderate-conservative views and the ethics scandal over bridge traffic in New Jersey, have been summarized elsewhere.But many candidates with little or no chance to win the nomination nonetheless play a big role in...

Victims named in Charleston church shooting

06/18/2015 23:25
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Grief mingled with relief Thursday as police announced the arrest and identity of a man accused of opening fire on a prayer group in a historic African American church.   Within hours of the arrest of Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old from Eastover, S.C., police also...

On China’s Yangtze River, a Race Against Time to Find Survivors

06/02/2015 18:41
JIANLI, China — Rescue divers from across China converged on a remote stretch of the Yangtze River on Tuesday in a race to save people believed to be trapped inside the hull of a capsized cruise ship that had carried 456 passengers and crew members.   As of Tuesday evening, nearly a...

IRS Breach Puts Spotlight on the Internet's 'Costco of Cybercrime'

05/28/2015 10:41
The Internal Revenue Service revealed Tuesday that criminals accessed tax information for more than 100,000 taxpayers via an online system -- and they bypassed security screens using personal information like Social Security numbers and addresses, which experts say are routinely sold online...

Doctor group seeks to clear confusion in cancer screening

05/19/2015 21:10
Mammograms at 40 or 50? Every year or every other year? What's the best colon check?   Screening for cancer has gotten more complicated in recent years with evolving guidelines that sometimes conflict. Now a doctors' group aims to ease some confusion — and encourage more discussion of...

George Zimmerman involved in Florida shooting

05/11/2015 23:31
George Zimmerman was involved in a shooting Monday in Lake Mary, Florida.   According to WESH, the shooting involved two men and Zimmerman suffered a minor gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital.    "The injuries are not serious," Lake Mary Deputy Police Chief...

Mother's cellphone ring may startle fetus, study says

05/07/2015 22:01
While many studies have investigated whether cellphone radiation is harmful, little is known about how the sound of a cellphone ringing might impact a baby in utero.   So researchers in New York decided to dig, in part because resident physicians—who regularly use cellphones and beepers...

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