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  • In the largest layoff in the company's history, it's stripping 14 percent of its workforce. CEO Satya Nadella says it's part of a plan to make the 39-year-old company more agile and productive.
  • Astonishingly, this is the third perfect game this season, a feat accomplished only 23 times in baseball history.
  • Product Description:The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John…
  • The suspect arrested in Spain is thought to have perpetrated what's been described as the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack in the history of the Internet.
  • One half of the rap duo Kris Kross, he died Wednesday. Kelly was 34. A police report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Kelly took a mixture of cocaine and heroin the night before his death and had a history of drug abuse.
  • The most famous building from the 1970's scandal is the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. A close second has to be the parking garage nearby, where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his source "Deepthroat." But now that historical location is about to become history — it's being torn down and going condo.
  • A Northern Kentucky lawmaker stepped in a Thanksgiving Twitter controversy over a joke about gun control. A joke made by Dry Ridge Republican Brian Linder…
  • 2: The final report on Iran contra by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has just been released. Terry talks with PETER KORNBLUH about the reports findings. KORNBLUH is senior analyst on U.S.-Latin America policy at the National Security Archive and editor of "The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History," (published in 1993 by the The New Press).
  • JOHN HELYAR'S new book, "Lords of the Realm" (Villard Books) looks at the corporate world of baseball. Instead of tracing the history of the game through its players, HELYAR focuses on the behind the scenes people-- the agents,owners, and general managers-- who shaped baseball. HELYAR is a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal," and co-author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "Barbarians at the Gate.
  • 2: Attorney and writer MARY FRANCES BERRY. She's also a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a professor of history and law at the University of Pennsylvania. She was formerly the assistant secretary for education in the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare. She's written a new book about the tradition of "mother-care" in our society, the notion that women have prinicipal responsibility for childcare. The book is, "The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother," (Viking). BERRY argues that women have not always traditionally been responsible for taking care of children, but that society has become accustomed to the arrangement and the existing power structure reinforces it.
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