Voters in the nation's second-largest city will elect a new mayor Tuesday in a race that will make history and offer a possible indicator on public sentiment toward unions representing municipal employees during a budget crisis.
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With the White House slashing its way through the recent brush of controversy, The president is putting out the message that he's focused on the economy as the administration enters another week of hearings on Capitol Hill.
The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich. They eventually walked away with stock worth around $150 million at today's share price.
Getting a four year college degree wasn't nearly enough for one California man and neither was graduate school.
In fact, this man now has a variety of college degrees.
Two dollars and a dream.
That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Missouri, convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball jackpot.
The average college graduate from the Class of 2013 has about $35,000 in student loan and credit card debt.
If they live in certain states, they might not have to pay back those loans.
The Internal Revenue Service scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for the nation's 2 million federal workers, who are desperate to end furloughs and get their first raise in three years.
