Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland resident who interrupted his Big Mac to help rescue four kidnapping victims, will get burgers for life from a host of Cleveland-area (and one Pennsylvania) restaurants, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Here's the full...
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Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and co-author Kenneth Hersh write in a New York Times op-ed today that America's domestic energy production renaissance will remake the world. "While this is not a free lunch, it should not be feared," they say. "The...
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We recently told you why we're long-term bullish on solar: there's a Moore's Law-esque effect in installed capacity, and there are huge investment opportunities. But there's also been a lot of short-term euphoria, and this chart from PowerClerk tells...
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The huge tornado that destroyed Moore is officially an EF5 level event, according to the AP. That means it probably reached wind speeds higher than 200 miles per hour. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel said that the path maxed out at 1.3 miles wide,...
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The Wall Street Journal's Michael Rothfeld reports authorities are considering charging SAC Capital as a criminal enterprise through the Racketeer Influenced and Organized Corruption Act (RICO) act. RICO laws were famously used to bust mafia and drug...
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After thumbing through the latest quarterly filings from the world's 50 biggest hedge funds, Factset has published its Q1 Hedge Fund Ownership Report. "The 50 largest hedge funds increased their equity exposure by over 5% in Q1 2013," said FactSet's...
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A local Tennessee TV station says it has time-lapse footage of the Category F-X tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City today. At least one elementary school was said to have taken a direct hit. Here's the clip: Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee...
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Russian dash cams are the best (and scariest). The latest clip, dated May 13, shows a car careening off the road, hitting an embankment and flipping about 15 feet in the air. It happens near the city of Bryansk by the Belorussian border, according to...
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