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• Poll shows most users distrust Facebook

  Facebook’s public offering will be the largest and perhaps most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. But faced with great expectations, Facebook is staring down some potentially unnerving obstacles when it comes to key areas of monetization and growth: public distr …

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• Judge rules out testimony on FEC audit that cleared money for John Edwards' mistress

  Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET: Jurors in the campaign finance trial of former Sen. John Edwards won't hear about a federal audit that concluded that almost $1 million used to help conceal his affair with Rielle Hunter did not amount to campaign contributions subject to federal regulat …

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• Three Boston University students killed, five injured in New Zealand van crash

  Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET: Three Boston University students were killed and five others hospitalized in New Zealand on Saturday when their minivan veered and then rolled over several times. Joseph Bergen, the U.S. vice consul in Auckland, identified the deceased as Daniela Lekhno, …

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• Are celebrity wines worth the price?

  There is one overriding reason people will consider buying the new white wine with the big “B” on the label, and it can be summed up by the name above it: Barrymore. Drew Barrymore has gone into the wine business, and her first release is not from California, where s …

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• Son defies odds to walk into returning soldier's arms

  When Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney, 31, returned home from Afghanistan to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina last December, he was taken aside and escorted into a gymnasium where his wife and five children waited.

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