Noon News: Entertainment, Politics, Business

Giants fans are all over the place with opinions on whether the team should sign Tim Lincecum to a contract surpassing $100 million, but imagine the views in Texas on Josh Hamilton.
Hamilton has surpassed Matt Kemp as the most productive hitter in the majors, batting .402 with 18 homers and 41 RBIs, leading the American [...]

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By Stephen Grocer
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JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, says he doesn’t want to make excuses, but his bank’s $2 billion losses in the last 45 days were due to errors, sloppiness, terrible execution, bad judgment and strategy, and the mark-to-market environment.
Want to know something?  Those are exactly the same things that I would have guessed caused the loss [...]

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As of Wednesday, President Obama now openly supports gay marriage. North Carolina voters, just a day earlier, decided by a wide margin to amend their constitution to ban gay marriage and civil unions.
Skip to next paragraph President Obama announced today that he supports gay marriage; he had opposed such unions in the 2008 campaign, [...]

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(This story appears in the May 7, 2012, issue of Forbes)
SILVER HAIR COMBED NEATLY, a purple tie gracing his neck, Ricardo Salinas Pliego spoke with the easy confidenceof a man who has not worried about money in a very long time. “Today we have a bank that didn’t use to exist,” Salinas told the crowd. [...]

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Well, a day later, the money hasn’t gotten to Matt Cain’s head. after the Giants showed the right-hander the money on Monday, Cain showed them what he typically has shown them Tuesday.
“Everything felt good, I was able to throw everything for strikes,” Cain said after going five innings and getting the win in San Francisco’s [...]

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A brief foray into the world of psychic healing today. I came across this rich vein of WTFuckery while doing my usual trawl for whacksoterical pronouncements out in Deep Internet. this one is definitely a jewel in anyone’s collection: Gazing with Braco.
Yes, gazing with Braco (pronounced “Bratso”, it’s Croatian). Braco has a great Gift. he [...]

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El 4/20, es decir, el 20 de abril, es un día de fiesta para los amantes de la marihuana en Estados Unidos, y el rapero Lil Wayne ha querido felicitar a sus fans en Facebook y Twitter por ello.
“Happy 4/20 bro” (Felíz 4/20, hermano)  escribía el cantante en la red social hace unas horas, al igual [...]

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The Knicks responded to a damaging report from the new York Daily News by calling it an extortion attempt from the paper. the Daily News reported Monday that the Knicks withheld information about Jeremy Lin needing surgery on his knee until after the deadline for season ticket holders to purchase playoff tickets for all four [...]

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By Allison Linn
You’ve filed your tax return. Now comes the happy anticipation of wondering how quickly your refund will show up – and grousing when it isn’t in your bank account quickly.
The IRS has for years faced intense pressure to make the painful process of paying taxes more palatable by at least providing a zippy [...]

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