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Bank of Japan redoubles efforts to revive economy 10/31/2014 08:15pm • ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's central bank surprised the financial world and pleased investors Friday by intensifying its purchases of government bonds and other assets to try to revive a chronically anemic economy.The Bank of Japan's move to pump trillions more yen into 3 California counties voting on fracking bans 10/31/2014 07:30pm • ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voters in three coastal California counties vote Tuesday on whether to ban fracking and other intensive oil production, even as slumping prices globally are leading companies to start to scale back on production.Chevron, ExxonMobil and other oi Q&A: Why Japan's economy needs more juice 10/31/2014 05:48pm • TOKYO (AP) -- Japan is pumping more money into its lagging economy, expanding an already lavish stimulus effort. The surprise announcement Friday highlights diverging fortunes among the world's top economies. Earlier this week, the U.S. Federal Reserve ended its own unprecedented stimulus in a sign GOP senators urge Obama to hold off on immigration 10/31/2014 02:10pm • DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The three Republican senators responsible for comprehensive immigration legislation, which remains stalled in Congress, on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to hold off on any steps to shield millions of people from deportation."Acting by executi AbbVie hikes forecast, tops Street expectations 10/31/2014 11:30am • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer The drugmaker AbbVie surprised Wall Street on Friday with a third-quarter performance that turned out much better than expected and a new 2014 forecast that also extends well beyond what analysts predict.Shares of the North Chicago, Illinois, company started climbing be Omega to buy out rival Aviv in $3B all-stock deal 10/31/2014 11:20am • The Associated Press Omega Healthcare will buy rival real estate investment trust Aviv in a $3 billion all-stock deal combining two companies that each run hundreds of nursing homes.Aviv shareholders will receive a portion of Omega stock valued at $34.97 for each Aviv share in a deal designed to be Pirate Bay founder jailed for hacking Danish data 10/31/2014 10:10am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Danish court on Friday sentenced the Swedish founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay to 3½ years in prison after he was found guilty of hacking into a private company handling sensitive information for Danish authorities.Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and a 21-year-old Da Hungary suspends Internet tax after huge protests 10/31/2014 09:29am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Following large-scale protests, Hungary's prime minister said Friday that the government would suspend a planned tax on Internet use and reconsider the matter next year.A scheme to make Internet service providers pay 150 forints ($0.62) per gigabyte of Internet traffic, lat A distant father-daughter duo in 'Interstellar' 10/31/2014 07:46am • DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jessica Chastain doesn't even feel comfortable saying her character's name.The Oscar-nominated actress quickly attempts to course correct when she realizes she's speaking liberally about Murph, the astrophysicist she's portraying in "Interst Woman pleads guilty in Smith Mountain Lake fraud 10/31/2014 06:50am • LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- A former Roanoke woman has pleaded guilty in a Smith Mountain Lake mortgage fraud scheme.Susanne Helbig, who now lives in Georgia, was charged in a 15-count indictment in May. She pleaded guilty to one count of mortgage fraud conspiracy and one count of tax fraud Thursday i Romania to vote for new leader; corruption ignored 10/31/2014 06:07am • ALISON MUTLER Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romanians go to the polls Sunday to elect a new leader as President Traian Basescu steps down after 10 years. Prime Minister Victor Ponta is favored to win over challengers who include a city mayor and a glamorous lawyer. Here's a look at thi Navajo vote could factor into tight Arizona race 10/31/2014 02:08am • FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- On the airwaves of a popular Navajo radio station, President Barack Obama uses the Navajo greeting "Ya'at'eeh" and implores tribal members to get out and vote for Democrats.The party is trying hard to hang on to the seat held by U.S. Rep. Ann United with D.C.: Citizen Ben Olsen 10/31/2014 12:32am • WASHINGTON -- In the modern age of professional sports, it's rare anymore to find players who stay with a single team for all, or even the majority, of their careers. Even those who do are rarely involved any further upon retirement, other than as a dignitary. And for all the pomp and circumstance b How Seriously Should You Take Retirement Savings Calculators? 10/31/2014 12:00am • You punch some numbers into a retirement calculator, and the results are so frightening you want to run away: It says you should have $500,000 saved by now. Or $1 million. Or is that $2 million for a couple? Or maybe it's eight times your salary. How seriously should you take all those stories abo 3 Signs You Have a 'Zombie' 401(k) 10/31/2014 12:00am • Did you know that, according to the National Retail Federation, the zombie is one of the five most popular Halloween costumes this year? Any avid watcher of "The Walking Dead" wouldn't be surprised, given the popularity of zombies in pop culture today. What you might not be aware of, however, is th