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The penalty settles charges that the banking giant misled investors on auction-rate securities.

Exclusives: 'Star Trek' star to play Gibson, Foster's son -- Anton Yelchin ('Star Trek') is co-starring with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster in indie dark comedy 'The Beaver,' with Foster directing and Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and Keith Redmon producing.

Claims that British forces 'charged in' while release talks were under way Military officials tonight defended the decision to launch a dramatic raid to rescue a British journalist from the Taliban, in which his Afghan assistant and a soldier were killed, against angry criticism in Afghanistan that the operation had been ordered while talks for his release had already begun.Gordon Brown hailed the helicopter assault, carried out by the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marines, as an act of 'breathtaking heroism' and said the bravery of the soldier who was killed would not be forgotten.Stephen Farrell, a 46-year-old New York Times reporter who had been held by the Taliban in Kunduz for four days, was freed as a result of the raid in the early hours, but the Afghan journalist working with him, Sultan Munadi, was killed.There were reports that at least two others were killed, possibly a woman and the owner of the house, but details remain unclear.Sources in Kabul claimed that at the time

Calif. Assemblyman Mike Duvall was caught on tape bragging about mistress.

BOSTON - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of catechism classes and rape him, beginning when he was just 6 years old. The victim...

For all of you men out there wondering if there’s a sex tape out there featuring Megan Fox, you can stop searching, pervs, there isn’t one. Sorry to let you down, fellas, but Megan claims that she’ll never be involved in any sort of sex tape scandal. Why, you might ask? She’s never going [...]

A GERMAN AIDS awareness advert showing an Adolf Hitler lookalike having sex has been pulled from internet video-sharing site YouTube.

Assemblyman Mike Duvall was caught on videotape bragging in graphic detail about having sex with a female lobbyist and another woman. Duvall, whose votes on family-oriented legislation received high marks from conservative groups, is married and has two adult children.

Bank of America Corp shot back at New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, saying he is 'simply wrong' to claim that the bank is hindering an investigation into its takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.

A Jordanian youth was charged with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his divorced teenaged sister because she 'knew many men,'