News 01/24/2012
Martin Scorsese's 3D epic adventure film Hugo leads the charge at this year's Academy Awards with 11 nods, including best film and director ... President John F. Kennedy's library is releasing 45 hours of privately recorded meetings and phone calls, providing a window into the final months of his life ... Outgoing Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords spent her last hours as Tucson's U.S. representative finishing the meeting she started on the morning she was shot and bidding farewell to constituents who ... Prosecutors are set to begin presenting their case against jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is accused of orchestrating a vast Ponzi scheme and defrauding investors out of more than $7 ... A former dentist in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals ... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications profit missed Wall Street expectations by a penny as its wireless business was hit by the high costs of sales of advanced phones such as the Apple Inc ... The International Monetary Fund says the world's economy is "deeply into the danger zone", with the eurozone crisis requiring urgent action ... Japan announces its first annual trade deficit in more than 30 years, a setback for a country known for its exports ... A west Philadelphia abortion doctor facing murder charges in the deaths of seven babies and a patient has pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges ... A March trial has been scheduled in a child support lawsuit against an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a plane with a note saying she didn't want to be his mother ... | 
