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News Corp Posts Higher Q4 Profit, Beats Estimates

LOS ANGELES – Media conglomerate News Corp. (NWS) on Wednesday posted a 67-percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, beating analysts’ forecasts, as subscriber gains at Sky Italia and newspapers helped offset weaker television operations. The owner of the 20th Century Fox (search) film studio and the New York Post posted a …

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Emergency U.N. Meeting on Iran

VIENNA, Austria – The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency held an emergency meeting Tuesday to assess Iran’s resumption of uranium conversion, while an Iranian dissident said Tehran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade. The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (search) 35-nation board of …

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Court Upholds Va. Pledge Requirement

RICHMOND, Va. – An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a Virginia law that requires public schools to lead a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance (search), rejecting a claim that its reference to God was an unconstitutional promotion of religion. A suit filed by Edward Myers (search) of Sterling, …

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