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Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes

Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By MARCY GORDONAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102

Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock

Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. The space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder to its onboard laboratories later this week for analysis. Sunday's drill was the first major activity by Curiosity

Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes

Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
WASHINGTON (AP) - Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash,

Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat

Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A new government report details 87 shipwrecks - most sunk during World War II decades ago - that could pollute U.S. waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil. Even so, the potential for pollution is less than scientists had expected. The

Blackstone group offers to take Pactera private

Blackstone group offers to take Pactera private
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By The Associated Press Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million. Shares rose 31 percent Monday. Through Friday's

Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle

Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By JOHN MILLERAssociated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site heisted his handle. Leonard Barshack, who in the 1990s founded the Internet email listing

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By MICHAEL LIEDTKEAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday represents Mayer's boldest move yet since she left

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By The Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) - Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to - which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood

Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon

Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By DAVID ESPO and ERICA WERNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a

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Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th
By TAMARA LUSH and BARBARA RODRIGUEZAssociated Press ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) - It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday

Public Memorial For Fairchild Airmen Of KC-135 Tanker Crash In Kyrgyzstan

Public Memorial For Fairchild Airmen Of KC-135 Tanker Crash In Kyrgyzstan
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 17th
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - A public memorial for the patriots who lost their lives onboard a KC-135 that crashed May 3 will be held May 28, 2013 at the Inland Northwest Bank Performing Arts Center at 1 p.m. Capt. Mark Tyler Voss, Capt. Victoria Pinckney and Tech. Sgt. Herman "Tre" Mackey III will be

SLIDESHOW: 2013 Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade

SLIDESHOW: 2013 Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 19th
KHQ.COM - The 2013 Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade is in the books. With tens of thousands of people in downtown Spokane watching the parade, the floats, the marching bands, we know you took plenty of pictures! Well, we want to see them!  To submit pictures for this