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The Big East is on the verge of extinction after the most recent round of conference realignment and expansion in college football.

Creeps have been around long before the Internet. They were called Peeping Toms. Or worse, rapists. But now the Internet age has exposed a new kind of creep -- the hacker who pries into the personal information of others.

The Mexican army paraded captured Los Zetas boss Carlos Oliva Castillo, nicknamed The Frog, in front of the media on Thursday, proudly displaying their latest victory in the country's ongoing war on drugs. But will the arrest have any effect on Mexico's increasingly violent drug war?

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain believes he can win the support of many Southern black voters. Don't believe for a minute that he can't.

Is there revenue fire in that new Kindle tablet? Amazon.com's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199, has created a buzz, due its potential to grab market share from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. With the latest kindle send Amazon’s stock vectoring higher?

Now comes the latest -- a three-day outage of BlackBerry services including email and Internet across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India plus some spotty outages in the U.S. Here's where you start to feel for the company: While the RIM and BlackBerry have been all but dead in the U.S, life remained for the company, its products, and services in these other countries.

Will the release of the iPhone 4s to Sprint (S) spark a renaissance in the wireless sector, including for longstanding iPhone carrier Verizon (VZ)?

Herman Cain is ahead of Mitt Romney in several recent polls. But can he sustain that lead, or is he just another candidate du jour? Political experts say a Cain nomination is unlikely.

Two years into the Greek sovereign debt crisis, Eurozone countries are still finger-pointing and not working toward a long-term solution based on mutual interest. Further, the most recent $11 billion band-aid for Greece will buy no peace for stakeholders, nor any resolution to the crisis.

If Apple truly is “insanely great” as co-founder Steve Jobs would have it, the availability of iOS 5 could be his true will and testament. It's a gigantic effort to seal loyalties of as many as 250 million global customers who will upgrade their current products, then set the stage for the roll-out of iPhone 4S, prospective iPhone 5, iPads and more.

The attempted Anonymous takedown of the New York Stock Exchange Web site shows the strength and exposes the weakness of anarchist movements.

While most Mormons consider themselves Christians, many Americans -- especially Evangelical Protestants -- do not believe that is the case.

If Herman Cain is wrong about the plight of America's poor, and what solutions are needed, as some black leaders have said, then why do the numbers suggest otherwise?

The Detroit Lions are 5-0 for the first time since 1956 and have seemingly taken the entire nation by storm. The team bandwagon is filling up, the city of Detroit has more hope in its sports teams in generations, and finally the Lions are looking like viable Super Bowl contenders.

A new report reveals that Google+ has lost about 60 percent of its traffic gained after opening to the public in September. Can Google+ survive against Facebook?

Facebook is completely redesigning its layout, but online consternation grows due to privacy issues.

The U.S. government has asked Google and Sonic to give up any WikiLeaks-related information and data, following with an order for them to turn over Appelbaum's e-mail contact list -- without a warrant.

The release of the iPhone 4s smartphone by Apple (AAPL) will likely juice the shares of AT&T's (T) by attracting hundreds of thousands of younger adult subscribers to AT&T's stable. Those extra subscribers should also help T improve its network quicker -- something the company needs to do.

On issues ranging from racial prejudice to economic inequity, Cain has invoked his own ascendance as a template for success -- and suggested that those who fall short have only themselves to blame.

Gold, silver, platinum and palladium, as well as other commodities, generally stand a better chance of handling a global economic downturn than other types of investments, Barclays Capital said Monday.

On the heels of the French-Belgian bank Dexia breakup, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a promise to come up with a plan by month-end to recapitalize European banks and deal with Greece's debt burden

The former chief executive of the Godfather Pizza chain now poses a serious challenge to front-runner Mitt Romney.

Incredibly, U.S. home mortgage rates continue to trend lower -- the average 30-year, fixed rate is now 4.07 percent, and they could drop even lower. Still, given soft home prices, jumping into the housing market is hardly a slam-dunk no-brainer, and here are five factors to consider before buying a home.

As the "Occupy Wall Street" protest becomes a movement, joined in the past two weeks by union workers and environmentalists and acknowledged publicly in legitimacy by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, we have to ask the question: How big can the Occupy Wall Street movement grow?

Given progress to-date, U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, which in October began its 11th year, will probably have to increase substantially to win the Afghanistan War. Should the U.S. Congress re-start the military draft to provide the increase in troops needed?

Republicans need to stop looking for savior candidates and start focusing on the candidates they have, or they will end up like the 2004 Democrats: unable to present a compelling alternative to an unpopular incumbent.

The Big East suffered another blow on Thursday when the Big 12 officially extended an invite to TCU, which the Texas school is expected to accept.

The U.S. economy unexpectedly added 103,000 jobs in September -- nearly double the consensus estimate. It's the best news for the world's largest economy in several months, and if a job growth trend forms, the nation's high unemployment rate will start to decline -- and that would be a welcome sight for investors and job-seekers alike.

By now, unless you live under a very large Nexus Prime-shaped rock, you've probably heard about Apple's new darling, the Siri Personal Assistant - a voice-controlled application that understands voice commands by people who speak like people and not like elocution robots.