LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shares of video game makers and sellers fell Thursday in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, which has renewed debate about violent games and their potential influence on crime.Shares of GameStop Corp., whose stores sell video games as well as systems like the Xbox and Wii, fell 5 percent in afternoon trading.Investors are seen as being increasingly...
Twitter post offers clue to The Civil Wars' future
Label: LifestyleNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — While there still remain questions about the future of The Civil Wars, there's new music on the way.Joy Williams, one half of the Grammy Award-winning duo with John Paul White, said Thursday during a Twitter chat that she was in the studio listening to new Civil Wars songs.It's a tantalizing clue to the future of the group, which appeared in doubt when a European tour unraveled...
German Health Care Attracts Foreign Patients
Label: HealthBERLIN — When Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraq, needed advanced medical care for a stroke suffered this week, he flew not to the United States or Britain but to Germany, for treatment here in the capital. For many Americans, Germany is known as a way station where soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan received immediate medical care on United States military bases. But it is also...
Stocks gain as traders hope for a budget deal
Label: Business Stocks closed higher as traders hope that lawmakers and the White House can agree on a budget deal in time to avoid steep tax...
Dec
19
Russia bill to ban U.S. adoptions of Russian children advances
Label: World MOSCOW — Russia's parliament took a first step Wednesday toward banning the adoption of Russian children by American parents,...
Changes in law aim to protect kids’ online data
Label: TechnologyWASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to prevent companies from exploiting online information about children under 13, the Obama administration on Wednesday imposed sweeping changes in regulations designed to protect a young generation with easy access to the Internet.Two years in the making, the amended rules to the decade-old Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act go into effect in July. Privacy advocates...
Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy welcome a baby boy
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy's "Homeland" just got bigger.Danes' rep confirms the couple welcomed a baby boy named Cyrus Michael Christopher.People.com first reported Monday's birth.It's the first child for 33-year old Danes and 37-year-old Dancy. They were married in 2009.There's no word yet whether the new mom will attend the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13. She's nominated for Best...
F.D.A. and States Meet About Regulation of Drug Compounders
Label: HealthMary Calvert/ReutersMargaret Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, testified on the meningitis outbreak before Congress in November. She addressed the need for greater federal oversight of large compounding pharmacies, which mix batches of drugs on their own, often for much lower prices than major manufacturers charge. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Food and Drug Administration conferred with public health...
Federal regulators take steps to strengthen kids' online privacy [Google+ Hangout]
Label: BusinessColumnist David Lazarus talks with Mark Blafkin, spokesman for an organization of app developers, and Alan Simpson of Common Sense Media, an advocacy group for parents. ...
Dec
18
Two more funerals in Newtown; NRA responds to school massacre
Label: World NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Two more of the children killed by a gunman who invaded a Connecticut elementary school were buried on Tuesday...
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