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Bitcoins becoming hot currency

  • RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press
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Digital money gains legitimacy LONDON (AP) — With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that’s feeding the rise of a new kind of money — a virtual currency whose oscillations have pulled geeks and speculators alike through stomach-churning highs and lows.

Air Force will ground fighters, bombers
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Air Force will ground fighters, bombers

  • BROCK VERGAKIS, Associated Press
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A top general says federal budget cuts that will ground one-third of the U.S. Air Force’s active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers means “accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur.”