From COMPANIES 9:54am

New Jersey legalises online gambling

Shares in 888 and Bwin.party jump

From COMMENT 7:47pm

US must side with its young not its guns

America has to seize a rare moment of shared outrage, writes Richard Daley

Producer Grant Heslov accepts the best picture award for 'Argo' ©Getty From MULTIMEDIA Feb 25, 2013

The Oscars 2013

Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ leads the winners of the 85th Academy Awards

From left: Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, and Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz during the 85th Academy Awards ©AFP Feb 25, 2013

CIA Iran drama wins on Oscar night

Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ takes best picture award

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty ©Bloomberg From US POLITICS & POLICY Feb 22, 2013

CIA shifts Hollywood gaze to its best side

Recent movies and TV shows recast once sinister secret agents as heroes

From US POLITICS & POLICY Feb 21, 2013

US eyes student loan refinancings

Growing debt load saps consumption

Gary Silverman Gary Silverman from COMMENT Feb 21, 2013

A false economy that is hard to stomach

Extra germs are on the menu at restaurants too tight to provide health cover

Capitol Building Washington ©Getty From US POLITICS & POLICY Feb 19, 2013

Obama takes aim at ‘meat cleaver’ cuts

Dire warning over danger of $1.2tn budget sequester

Editorial from COMMENT Feb 19, 2013

Higher US minimum wage makes sense

Republicans must embrace conservative case for pay floor

From US POLITICS & POLICY Feb 18, 2013

Suffering side-effects of health reform

Critics see threat to Obamacare goals

Feb 17, 2013

US union warns Obama on trade talk tactics

Signal that support from left for any deal not guaranteed

From COMPANIES Feb 14, 2013

US regulator approves first bionic eye

Device to offer limited sight to victims of genetic eye disease

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Feb 13, 2013

Minimum wage proposal divides Illinois

Debate over whether higher salaries could boost growth

Feb 10, 2013

Blizzard leaves US northeast reeling

Obama declares state of emergency in Connecticut

From US POLITICS & POLICY Feb 10, 2013

Storm-hit Staten Island throws in towel

Scores of residents want NY state to buy their homes

Feb 10, 2013

US northeast digs out after snowstorms

Clean up effort begins after record snow in New England

Feb 9, 2013

Blizzard kills six in the US and Canada

Three feet of snow reported as power cut to 700,000 customers

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Feb 8, 2013

America’s malls seek a life beyond retail

US landlords need to get creative in their hunt for tenants

From COMMENT Feb 7, 2013

Lilia Shevtsova: A new way to contain Russia

Traditional methods of dealing with Putin’s Kremlin have stopped working, writes Lilia Shevtsova

From MANAGEMENT Feb 7, 2013

A byte to eat in the Valley

Innovators have combined the Californian obsessions of technology and food

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