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Russia retaliates on West's sanctions over Ukraine 08/08/2014 10:14am • VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia retaliated Thursday for sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine by banning most food imports from the West, dealing a blow to Europe that also takes aim at hurting the U.S., Canada and Australia.In choosing to make an economic move, President V Review: Amazon phone better for info than shopping 08/07/2014 10:10am • ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- My buying habits have yet to change in my nearly three weeks with Amazon's shopping-centric Fire phone.Rather, I've found the phone's Firefly scanning feature to be far more useful as an information-gathering tool.The idea behind Firefly is Barbara Corcoran on her 2nd life with 'Shark Tank' 08/06/2014 06:05pm • JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Corcoran expects entrepreneurs to listen to what she says, and then do what they want. Even when they're using her money to build their companies.Corcoran, now one of the investors on the ABC program "Shark Tank," made her name running N Soderbergh, Owen team for a 1900-era medical drama 08/06/2014 02:10pm • FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- No rubber gloves. No high-tech instruments. No medical-malpractice lawyers.Welcome to the Knickerbocker Hospital, aka the Knick, a bloody citadel of healing in circa-1900 Manhattan where great strides are made (soon, an X-ray machine!) A digital and divisive redesign of 'Ninja Turtles' 08/06/2014 11:16am • DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Over the past two years, inside the high-tech sanctuary of Industrial Light and Magic, the man who built a virtual virgin jungle for the last "Indiana Jones" movie and conjured 150-foot-tall aliens for "War of the Worlds" has been confront Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment: 08/05/2014 05:20pm • DETROIT (AP) --UNITED STATES-AFGHANISTANGeneral is highest ranking Army officer killed in Iraq or AfghanistanWASHINGTON (AP) -- An American general has become the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars.A Pentagon spokesman says the general was killed in an app Wal-Mart's website to personalize shopping 08/05/2014 04:16am • ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart, in its latest bid to compete with nemesis Amazon.com, is rebuilding its website to further personalize the online shopping experience of each customer.Wal-Mart is rolling out a feature that will enable its website to show shoppers more pr A glance at new changes at Walmart.com 08/04/2014 11:20am • The Associated Press In its latest bid to compete with online king Amazon.com, Wal-Mart is rebuilding its website to make shoppers' experience simpler, faster and more personalized.The first wave of changes is happening this month but others will be rolled out over the next few months. The changes, Will buy start again?...World markets edge higher...Portuguese bank rescue 08/04/2014 07:40am • NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a big question waiting to be answered today on Wall Street: Will investors step in to buy stocks after a major fall in the market last week, its worst week in two years? The S&P 500 fell 2.7 percent. The broad index lost 5 ½ points to close at 1,925 on Friday. The Dow Jones Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout 08/03/2014 05:28am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president's new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in a report released Wednesday.While the administration was pub Lotteries nationwide try to bring in young adults 08/02/2014 03:00pm • KATELYN FERRAL Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Madi Williams, 21, spends her days selling lottery tickets at TAZ's Supermarket One convenience store in downtown Raleigh. She sees a steady stream of customers daily, but she's not one of them."Everyone who's above 40 comes in every day and spen As US job market strengthens, many don't feel it 08/01/2014 09:06am • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- For millions of workers, happy days aren't quite here again.Though the U.S. unemployment rate has plunged since the start of last year to a five-year low of 6.1 percent, the Gallup Organization has found that consumers' view of the economy is the glu Records indicate bored feds surf porn sites, shop 08/01/2014 08:05am • WASHINGTON -- Federal workers may not have enough to do and are bored, and that's led some to watch porn while on the job. Investigation records turned over to The Washington Times through a Freedom of Information request show workers surfed porn sites out of boredom. One Federal Communications Starz' 'Outlander' brings novels to life vibrantly 08/01/2014 07:32am • FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- There's an odd believability you find inside "Outlander" that somehow makes it feel true-to-life.Never mind that it's a rip-roaring fantasy. Claire, a lovely British Army nurse on a second honeymoon in Scotland, is mysteriously swept from 1945 back Man accused of putting needles in packaged meat 07/31/2014 11:40pm • JIM SUHR Associated Press EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- A 68-year-old Illinois man was jailed without bond Thursday after being accused by federal prosecutors of inserting sewing needles into packaged meat "just for the hell of it" at a grocery store in his hometown at least seven times over more tha