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Mexico's interior minister, Jose Francisco Blake Mora, was killed in a helicopter crash outside Mexico City on Friday.

In 2011, U.S. gamers have spent an estimated $1.2 billion on F2P games, which have taken up to 47 percent of all MMO expenditures. It has grown 24 percent in the last year, now seriously contending with pay-to-play MMOs like World of Warcraft for players' attention. The report says gamers spend about 26 million hours every day playing MMOs in the U.S.

CBS is taking aim at a television classic.The network is rebooting the Chuck Connors series The Rifleman, the late-1950s ABC Western about Civil War vet and widower Lucas McCain, who takes his son and his hot-rodded Winchester rifle and settles in the New Mexico territory of North Fork, an individual familiar with the project confirms to TheWrap.

In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a local blogger was allegedly tortured and then murdered in retaliation for posting comments about local drug cartels. The decapitated body of El Rascatripas, as he was known online, was found lying on the street near a statue of Christopher Columbus, about one mile from the Texas border.

Shares of Cisco Systems, the world’s biggest supplier of Internet equipment, soared nearly seven percent Thursday after the company reported first-quarter results that slightly beat expectations.

There will be plenty of sports on Saturday night.

Cisco Systems, the world’s biggest supplier of Internet equipment, reported first-quarter results that slightly beat expectations because of new sales to telecommunications carriers.

First Majestic Silver Corp.'s third-quarter profit rose as higher silver prices lifted revenue 88 percent, offsetting a decline in silver produced, the Vancouver-based mining company said Wednesday.

Shares of Cisco Systems shares fell 2.6 percent in early Wednesday trading to $17.84 as nervous investors await the first-quarter earnings announcement scheduled after the close.

Canadian miner Timmins Gold Corp (TMM.TO: Quote) swung to a second-quarter profit as it sold more gold at higher prices.

A powerful Republican state Senate leader who championed Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants appeared headed for early removal from office in a historic recall election, returns showed Tuesday night.

A powerful Republican state Senate leader who spearheaded Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants appeared headed for defeat Tuesday night in a historic recall election, early returns showed.

Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, on Tuesday, to discuss Operation: Fast and Furious and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. In his statements, Holder said he regretted the incident that led to the death agent Brian Terry.

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Justin Bieber gets animated in his new video Santa Claus is Coming to Town, off his Under the Mistletoe album.

Pacquiao vs Marquez III and the importance of the boxing trilogy.

College students in the Northeast and the Midwest graduated with the most debt in the nation in 2010, according to a report released this week by The Project on Student Debt. The top spot went to New Hampshire.

Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> posted a 32 percent drop in quarterly operating profit and withdrew its full-year profit forecasts as Thai floods pose a fresh threat to production while supply shortages from the March earthquake kept output low.

Shares of Cisco Systems have jumped 20 percent in the past three months, which could be an indicator the No. 1 vendor of Internet networking products has surmounted a rough patch.

Ancient painters decorated caves with equine portraits that researchers Monday said depicted actual spotted horses instead of imaginative creations.