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The Lakers and Knicks appear to be the top two suitors for Grant Hill

The world's largest software maker announced late Sunday that it is pulling out of its partnership with MSNBC.com, a move that will allow the company to build its own online news service at a time when more and more consumers are finding their news online.

The internal memo, written by outgoing Executive Chairman Marcus Agius, added that customers, clients, shareholders and regulators all have a right to feel let down.

Lin had a lot of success in his one year with the Knicks, but will be making a lot of money in a few years. Should New York let Lin walk away for nothing?

Charlie Sheen may have announced his permanent departure from Twitter last week, but there was one time - or many, rather - where he couldn't stop using the micro blogging service, even succumbing to tweet during sex, says porn star and ex-mistress Bree Olson.

A 2009 clinical trial in Thailand was the first to show it was possible to prevent HIV infection in humans. Since then, discoveries have pointed to even more powerful vaccines using HIV-fighting antibodies. Now scientists believe a licensed vaccine is within reach.

China weighed in on Monday with a heavy dose of sarcasm regarding the recent controversy over U.S. Olympics team blazers, suggesting that perhaps members of congress should be banned from wearing anything or using any product that has been manufactured abroad.

Citigroup Inc.'s second-quarter profit fell 12 percent but its adjusted earnings-per-share beat estimates, the New York-based bank said Monday.

A compelling question concerning the nation's current political culture is: what has happened to the Republican Party? President Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party's first president, elected in 1860. But do the values of today's Tea Party faction-dominated Republican Party match the values of Lincoln?

Seattle received a 67th minute goal from Fredy Montero to earn a point in MLS action.

NBC News announced Sunday night that it had officially severed its online relationship with the Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) with respect to their joint news site MSNBC.com. NBC has acquired the MSNBC domain, paying Microsoft about $300 million for its stake in the site.

While plenty of lesser-known tech blogs have been reporting on the recent developments in the Apple world, major publications have been less enthusiastic about the news. On Sunday, however, the New York Times threw its weight behind rumors of a coming iPad with a 7.85-inch screen.

Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died on Sunday at home in New York at the age of 95. The actress was known for her work in Hollywood movies and in Broadway shows, but she will be best remembered for her Oscar-winning turn in Gentleman's Agreement.

Linsanity is no more. The New York Knicks have officially lost Jeremy Lin to the Houston Rockets, as a source reportedly tells ESPN's Stephen A. Smith that the Knicks do not plan to match Houston's offer sheet for the young star point guard.

Jason Kidd was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with misdemeanor DWI after hitting a telephone pole in Southampton, N.Y., just three days after signing a three-year $9.5 million contract with the New York Knicks, according to Southampton town police.

A photo from a New Jersey gay couple's engagement party has landed an anti-gay union organization in hot water, after it used the photo without permission in a political attack ad against a pro-civil union Republican in Colorado.

New York Knicks fans have been left asking what the plan is for Jeremy Lin after the team signed point guard Raymond Felton and jettisoned Landry Fields and Jared Jeffries in a major day of deals Saturday.v

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

Gossip Girl missed out on this hot tip. According to a police report filed on July 8, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are more than boyfriend and girlfriend - they are man and wife!

Student-loan debt levels are rapidly rising and recently topped $1 trillion in the U.S.. And communities in Kansas and New York are using the bait of paying off this debt to lure educated residents who they hope will help improve the economic, cultural, and social conditions of their respective regions.

La Jolla Playhouse on Thursday set off a social-media firestorm over the casting of its upcoming production of The Nightingale. Although the Hans Christian Andersen tale is set in Feudal China, the cast contains few Asian actors.