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Review: Gift guide to full-size tablets

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By PETER SVENSSONAP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Tablets are at the top of many wish lists this holiday season. But what to get? The choice used to be pretty limited, with the iPad dominating the latecomers. But this year, the field is more even, as tablets from Apple's competitors

Review: Gift guide to smaller tablets

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By PETER SVENSSONAP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The tablet computer is without a doubt the gift of the season - just like it was last year. But if you resisted the urge in 2011, now is the time to give in. This season's tablets are better all around. Intense competition has kept

Review: Gift guide to smaller tablets

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

EU pays $230M a year to keep Parliament on road

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By ROBERT WIELAARDAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) - If European Union leaders are looking to save some serious money, they might look no further than the "traveling circus" that is the European Parliament. The EU assembly leads a pricey and nomadic life. Once a month, it shifts thousands of

US stock futures rise on Black Friday

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stock futures rose on Black Friday, the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. Retail is a key chunk of the U.S. economy - consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of it. Shopping trends on Black Friday may signal consumers' appetite for spending over the

Ranbaxy recalls generic Lipitor doses

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By LINDA A. JOHNSONAP Business Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. has recalled dozens of lots of its generic version of cholesterol drug Lipitor because some may contain tiny glass particles, the latest in a string of manufacturing deficiencies that once led U.S.

Budget clash leaves EU summit close to failure

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By CARLO PIOVANO and DON MELVINAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) - The prospect of failure loomed over a European Union leaders' summit intended to lay out the 27-country bloc's long-term spending plans. While heavyweights like Britain and France are pulling in opposite directions, smaller

DC on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By ERIC TUCKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The crack epidemic that began in the 1980s ushered in a wave of bloodletting in the nation's capital and a death toll that ticked upward daily. Dead bodies, sometimes several a night, had homicide detectives hustling between crime scenes and

Cash-strapped post office tests same-day delivery

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By HOPE YENAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to start a premium service for the Internet shopper seeking the instant gratification of a store purchase: same-day

Black voters look to leverage their loyalty

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By SUZANNE GAMBOAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - When black voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, black leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief. That encouraged those leaders to try to