http://www.mail.com/subjects/308-business.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/308-business.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862168-obama-offers-faith-groups-birth-control-rule.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration is proposing a compromise for faith-based nonprofits that object to covering birth control in their employee health plans. Some of the lawsuits appear headed for the Supreme Court, threatening another divisive legal battle over Presid... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862168-obama-offers-faith-groups-birth-control-rule.html 2013-02-02T07:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862032-healthier-schools-goodbye-candy-greasy-snacks.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful, a change that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy foods on campus. Under new r... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862032-healthier-schools-goodbye-candy-greasy-snacks.html 2013-02-01T21:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known from his work history that he was potentially dangerous. The lawsuit being filed on behalf of Jacob Beneke's family is the firs... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html 2013-02-01T20:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861644-detroit-toyota-big-us-sales-gains-january.html DETROIT (AP) — American consumers ignored tax increases and trudged through winter weather to buy new cars and trucks at an unusually strong pace last month. It was the auto industry's best January since 2008. "It was like a sprinter out of the starting blocks," said Mike Jackson, CEO of AutoNation Inc., the country's largest auto dealership chain. U.S. a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861644-detroit-toyota-big-us-sales-gains-january.html 2013-02-01T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday. As hundreds of emergency worke... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html 2013-02-01T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862842-london-anarchist-bookshop-hit-suspicious-fire.html LONDON (AP) — One of Britain's oldest anarchist publishers says its east London bookshop has been firebombed. Freedom Press — set up more than 100 years ago — said Friday that no one was injured in the overnight fire, but that its shop and electrics "have been seriously damaged." The publisher said on its Twitter page that it doesn't know who is responsib... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862842-london-anarchist-bookshop-hit-suspicious-fire.html 2013-02-01T19:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862170-super-bowl-watch-katrina-coin-flip-bets-modell.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: MODELL HOF DEBATE One of the liveliest debates this weekend in New Orleans could be not about the Super Bowl itself, but on whether late Baltimore R... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862170-super-bowl-watch-katrina-coin-flip-bets-modell.html 2013-02-01T21:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1862210-nba-union-head-hunter-indefinite-leave.html NEW YORK (AP) — NBA players put union chief Billy Hunter on an indefinite leave Friday, two weeks after a report they commissioned questioned Hunter's leadership and criticized him for bad decisions and questionable business practices. The union is forming an interim executive committee and an advisory committee, the group's president, Derek Fisher, said ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1862210-nba-union-head-hunter-indefinite-leave.html 2013-02-01T22:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862586-ind-dnr-wants-charges-dropped-deer-rescue-case.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Friday it is asking a prosecutor to drop charges against a couple who nursed an injured baby deer back to health and kept it in an enclosure on their property for two years. The misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of a white-tailed deer against police officer Jeff Counceller and hi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862586-ind-dnr-wants-charges-dropped-deer-rescue-case.html 2013-02-01T19:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation. After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html 2013-02-01T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1828252-priest-sheik-marriage-lebanon.html BEIRUT (AP) — She was an English language tutor with an easy smile and an independent streak. He was a gym receptionist who wanted to better himself. They met for English lessons, swapped views on life and fell in love. Three months ago, a notary married them before their friends and family — but not in the eyes of the Lebanese government. The government ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1828252-priest-sheik-marriage-lebanon.html 2013-02-01T19:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died. More than 300 people gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the outdoor ceremony, just a few miles from where Columbia was supposed to land ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html 2013-02-01T21:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html NEW YORK (AP) — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humor, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with ... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html 2013-02-02T00:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861868-dow-ends-14000-1st-time-oct-2007.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years. It was just a number on a board, but it was enough to raise the hopes of some investors and cause others concern about an overheated market. And it brought reminders of a different era, back before the financial crisis rocked the world economy. ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861868-dow-ends-14000-1st-time-oct-2007.html 2013-02-01T20:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862634-google-to-set-up-82m-fund-french-publishers.html PARIS (AP) — Google will help French news organizations increase their online advertising revenue and also set up a €60 million ($82 million) fund to finance digital publishing innovation, settling a dispute over whether the Internet giant should pay to display news content in its search results. The agreement, announced Friday by the French government an... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862634-google-to-set-up-82m-fund-french-publishers.html 2013-02-01T20:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861470-mattel-4q-wall-streets-expectations.html NEW YORK (AP) — It was a blue Christmas in toyland. Weak demand over the holidays for toys like Barbie and Matchbox led Mattel's results to fall short of expectations in the key holiday quarter. A litigation charge also weighed on results and net income fell 17 percent. Still the results from the world's largest toymaker came in strong... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861470-mattel-4q-wall-streets-expectations.html 2013-02-01T18:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862468-firm-apple-biggest-us-phone-seller.html NEW YORK (AP) — The launch of the iPhone 5 and the declining popularity of non-smartphones have made Apple the biggest seller of phones in the U.S. for the first time, research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday. The firm estimates that Apple shipped 17.7 million iPhones of all kinds to U.S. buyers in the October to December period, meaning it accounted ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862468-firm-apple-biggest-us-phone-seller.html 2013-02-01T21:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862528-oil-bottleneck-rockies-cheaper-gasoline.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A boom in domestic oil drilling has helped lower U.S. gasoline prices, though the steepest drops have missed California commuters, Midwestern farmers and even New York commodities traders who know all about oil and gasoline pricing. You have to be in the Rocky Mountains to see the lowest prices — ideally in Casper, the Wyoming city o... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862528-oil-bottleneck-rockies-cheaper-gasoline.html 2013-02-01T17:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862534-us-firm-raises-stake-itays-unicredit.html MILAN (AP) — U.S. investment firm Blackrock has increased its stake in Italian bank UniCredit to become its second-largest shareholder. The Italian stock market watchdog, Consob, said Blackrock raised its stake to 5.036 percent, from 3.103 percent at the end of November. Institutional investors are required to disclose publicly when their stakes exceed th... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862534-us-firm-raises-stake-itays-unicredit.html 2013-02-01T17:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862020-grim-outlook-sitcoms-post-30-rock.html NEW YORK (AP) — The void you're looking at on your DVR is the sitcom landscape post-"30 Rock." When Tina Fey's bright, bouncy, irreverent showbiz send-up aired its last episode Thursday night, a light (Kenneth's toothy grin?) went out in broadcast television. "30 Rock" was not perfect: It sometimes spun its wheels and its writing was often too showy. But ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862020-grim-outlook-sitcoms-post-30-rock.html 2013-02-01T17:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862536-what-school-foods-what-foods.html The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most all foods sold in schools. The rule would apply to "a la carte" lines in school cafeterias, vending machines, snack bars and any other food sold regularly on campus. It wouldn't apply to fundraisers, after-school concession stands, class parties or foods brought from home. Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862536-what-school-foods-what-foods.html 2013-02-01T22:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862300-sony-to-unveil-playstation-feb-20.html NEW YORK (AP) — Sony is poised to unveil the next PlayStation game console on Feb. 20, a date that would give the Japanese electronics company a head start over Microsoft's expected announcement of an Xbox 360 successor in June. Sony Corp. invited journalists to an evening press event in New York City. The company has not said what it plans to show off, b... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862300-sony-to-unveil-playstation-feb-20.html 2013-02-01T17:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862524-germany-warns-euro-crisis.html MUNICH (AP) — Europe's efforts to solve its debt troubles won a vote of confidence Friday from the chairman of China's sovereign wealth fund, but Germany's finance minister told an international conference that the continent can't afford to become complacent. Three years since the crisis started in Greece, the 17 European Union countries that use the euro... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862524-germany-warns-euro-crisis.html 2013-02-01T17:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862486-goodell-agreement-close-hgh-testing.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he believes there will be an agreement soon with the players' union for testing for human growth hormone. At his annual state of the NFL news conference Friday, Goodell said he expects an agreement for the tests to be reached in time for the start of the 2013 season. Goodell noted that the league and ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862486-goodell-agreement-close-hgh-testing.html 2013-02-01T17:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861702-report-us-job-market-surprisingly-strong.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market is proving surprisingly strong and raising hopes that the economy will be resilient enough this year to withstand a budget standoff in Washington and potentially deep cuts in federal spending. Employers added 157,000 jobs last month, and hiring turned out to be healthier than previously thought at the end of 2012 just... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861702-report-us-job-market-surprisingly-strong.html 2013-02-01T23:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861110-nycs-landmark-grand-central-terminal-turns-100.html NEW YORK (AP) — Grand Central station, once in danger of being demolished, is celebrating its 100th birthday with speeches, a brass band and a rollback to 1913 prices when a slice of cheesecake might go for 19 cents. The majestic Beaux Arts building, which carries the official name of Grand Central Terminal, is one of the world's most popular tourist dest... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861110-nycs-landmark-grand-central-terminal-turns-100.html 2013-02-01T17:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862450-nbc-news-president-steve-capus-stepping.html NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News President Steve Capus, who presided over years of strong ratings at the news division and expanded digital offerings but was hurt by the downfall of the "Today" show, said Friday that he was resigning. The Philadelphia-area native joined NBC News 20 years ago and produced various newscasts for Brian Williams before being appointed... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862450-nbc-news-president-steve-capus-stepping.html 2013-02-02T01:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862442-goodell-welcomes-obamas-remarks-safety.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league will look at eliminating certain low blocks and improve the quality of playing fields as part of a program to improve player safety. In his annual message on the state of the league two days before Sunday's Super Bowl, Goodell said neurosurgeons will also be added to game day medical staffs... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862442-goodell-welcomes-obamas-remarks-safety.html 2013-02-01T16:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861866-us-construction-spending-up-09-percent.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on U.S. construction projects rose in December, ending a year in which construction activity increased for the first time in six years. Construction spending rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $885 billion in December, the Commerce Department said Friday. That was up 0.9 percent from November, when spending increased a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861866-us-construction-spending-up-09-percent.html 2013-02-01T16:49:00Z