A different sort of holiday cheer

This holiday season, some workplaces are trading Chardonnay for charity contributions and crepes for kindness.

Published: 7 hours, 51 minutes ago

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On Leadership: Dead philanthropy?

Seth Goldman co-founded Honest Tea in 1998 with Barry Nalebuff, his professor at the Yale School of Management. The Bethesda-based company has been recognized for its growth and business practices .

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Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters

Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.

Published: 11 hours, 2 minutes ago

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In Indiana, practice for 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan

CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and Karakul cap, pleaded with two tribal elders to get along. Only the Taliban...

Published: 15 hours, 59 minutes ago

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Marine Disabled by Vaccine Battles VA for Benefits

Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez still suffers from injuries he began experiencing in Iraq three years ago � injuries caused not by bombs or guns but by a military-administered smallpox vaccine he got before left the United States.

Published: 17 hours, 27 minutes ago

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Alaska Senator: USPS to Resume Santa Letter Program

The mayor of the North Pole likened the U.S. Postal Service to the grinch who stole Christmas Friday after it decided to stop its Santa letters program.

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Former Marine Charged in Death of 'Cathouse' Prostitute

A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse."

Published: 20 hours, 16 minutes ago

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Hells Angel Finds God at the Bottom of Bottle of Booze

For most of his years, Richie Kane struggled through a living hell of physical and sexual abuse and devestating alcoholism. But now this former Hells Angel is empowered with a new force -- and says God has give him the strength to come back.

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Teen Pleads Guilty in Border Patrol Agent's Killing

A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty in the murder of a Border Patrol agent shot eight times in head, neck and torso in July.

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In the recession, all roads lead to home

MISSOULA, Montana -- Her parents redecorated the bedroom soon after she left for college, as sure as everyone else in this town that Melissa Meyer would not be moving back. They took down the photos of Melissa meeting the Dalai Lama and laughing alongside vice president Joe Biden, placing them in...

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