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During a hearing Tuesday, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy vented anger about a USAID program to fund a failed, Twitter-like network in Cuba.

The move creates a new economic secretariat to oversee all of the Holy See's economic and administrative affairs.

Today is "Giving Tuesday." The movement to create a national day of giving started last year, raising $10 million dollars for more than 2,500 charities nationwide.

Behavioral economist Alessandro Acquisti studies how everyday decisions blur the line between our public and private lives.

It's unclear if the NBA will allow Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov to transfer ownership of the team to one of his Russian companies.

In his first major statement on the global financial crisis, the pontiff calls on world leaders not to forget the poor.

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee had to be convinced by his family to get into the race, his son tells the Boston Globe. "He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life," Tagg Romney says.

The company showed a profit of nearly $220 million for the quarter but it fell short of analysts' expectations. CEO Mark Zuckerberg blamed the missed target on higher costs. Company spending is up 60 percent this quarter over the previous one due to hiring and new developments.

Big farms are collecting taxpayer dollars that they haven’t necessarily earned, by taking advantage of a loophole in government subsidy rules.

The NYSE said in a statement that it was experiencing a "technical issue" that it was working to resolve as quickly as possible.