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• Joe Biden unveils $53 billion rail plan

• Newsmaker: Vision question haunts Apple CEO-in-waiting

  Reuters – 2 hrs 12 mins ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – For Tim Cook, the small-town football fanatic turned steward of the world’s largest technology company, it always comes back to the vision question. Full Story »

• Lowe’s disappoints versus Home Depot

  Reuters – 19 mins ago

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – No. 2 U.S. home improvement chain Lowe’s Cos Inc reported weaker same-store sales versus larger rival Home Depot, and issued a lackluster earnings forecast after losing market share in the appliances segment. Full Story »

• Libya live report

  AFP – Tue Feb 22, 6:56 pm ET

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  TRIPOLI (AFP) – 2342 GMT: The unrest rocking Libya has left 300 people dead ? 189 civilians and 111 soldiers, an interior ministry spokesman says. The largest number of victims was in the eastern city of Benghazi, where 104 civilians and 10 soldiers have died. Full Story »

• California Republicans zero in on public pensions

  Reuters – Tue Feb 22, 6:51 pm ET

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Republicans, who could hold hostage a state budget proposed by its new Democratic governor, are drafting demands for supporting it, including the controversial issue of public pension reform. Full Story »

• Washington Post fourth-quarter profit falls

  Reuters – 16 mins ago

  BANGALORE (Reuters) – Washington Post Co reported a lower quarterly profit on Wednesday because of falling advertising revenue at its flagship newspaper and lower enrollment at its for-profit colleges. The Post’s fourth-quarter net income fell to $79 million, or $9.42 a share, from $81.7 million, or $8.71 a share, a year ago. As a result of the company’s share repurchases, there were fewer shares outstanding in 2010. Full Story »

• Greek riot police, protesters clash during strike

  AP – 30 mins ago

  AP

  ATHENS, Greece – Youths wearing ski masks hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around the country. Full Story »

• Geithner to testify on Obama housing paper March 1

  Reuters – Tue Feb 22, 3:49 pm ET

  Reuters

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is scheduled to testify March 1 before a key congressional panel on the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce the government’s role in the $10.6 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Full Story »

• Commerzbank to start repaying state aid

  AFP – 24 mins ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) – Germany’s second biggest bank, Commerzbank, said Wednesday it rebounded strongly in 2010 from heavy losses caused by the global financial crisis and pledged to start paying back state aid. Full Story »

• Wal-Mart’s 4Q Earnings at a Glance

  AP – Tue Feb 22, 8:46 pm ET

  Wal-Mart Stores reported that its fourth-quarter net income rose 27 percent. Here’s a closer look at the world’s largest retailer’s results: Full Story »

• Cash deals push home sales higher in January

  AP – 9 mins ago

  AFP/File

  WASHINGTON – More people bought previously occupied homes in January, but sales surged on a rising number of foreclosures and all-cash deals. Full Story »

  • Slideshow: Housing Crisis

• How Your Investments Are Taxed

  U.S. News & World Report – 8 mins ago

  After the first of the year, people begin to think about how much they will owe Uncle Sam on their investment returns. Oftentimes, people really don’t understand how to forecast or calculate that IOU. For starters, there is a difference between how various types of investments are taxed. Here are some pointers to help you understand how your investments are taxed: Full Story »

• Ford recalls 144,000 F-150 trucks for airbag risk

  Reuters – 38 mins ago

  Reuters

  DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said it would recall about 144,000 F-150 models in the United States and Canada from the 2005 and 2006 model years for the risk that airbags could deploy because of a short circuit. Full Story »

  • Slideshow: Ford Motor Company

• Deficit Could Reshape Retirement Funding

  BusinessWeek – Fri Feb 18, 8:08 am ET

  Republicans and Democrats in Washington are starting to battle in earnest over how to cut the federal government’s discretionary spending. Eventually the ominous arithmetic of entitlement spending and tax revenues will require Washington to turn to the Social Security benefit formula (as well as Medicare). Full Story »