Spain could be downgraded later this year, some analysts believe." />

blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2013/05/17/possibility-of-spanish-downgrade-looms-over-euro-zone/

Technology

A Treasury official comments on the change of guard at the scandal-ridden Internal Revenue Service." />

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Technology

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When asset prices start to fall, the main people to be hurt will be the ones owning the assets in question. In other words, the people who can best afford it." />

blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/22/dont-fear-the-bubble/

Business

Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date." />

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Sports

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Business

A woman's drunkenness, a man's age, the lack of physical struggle, all used as excuse to claim a rape hasn't occurred" />

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Business

Did Rosen get caught and get his source in trouble because he practiced poor journalistic tradecraft?" />

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Business

With Bush Revisionism in full flower, the movement conservatives and the Tea Party will have to slug it out again with the GOP establishment." />

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Business

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Politics

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Business

Moscow considers Syria different from its other allies in the Middle East because the outcome affects Russia's core strategic interests – including its global naval strategy and energy exports." />

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Business

It wasn't the substance of the AP story that has exasperated the government, but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corps’ rain barr

blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/05/16/why-the-underwear-bomber-leak-infuriated-the-obama-administration/

Politics

Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass." />

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Technology

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World

The traditional emigrant states are beginning to want their best minds back. The hunt for clever people is globalized. The needs of the developed world and the greater needs of the developing world now conflict." />

blogs.reuters.com/john-lloyd/2013/05/14/scrambling-for-the-immigrant-elite/

Business

Britain has been playing a defensive game in response to the barrage of misguided financial rules from Brussels. It now needs to sell the City as part of the solution to Europe's problems. The opportunity is huge. It could even help keep Britain in the EU

blogs.reuters.com/hugo-dixon/2013/05/20/uk-should-get-on-front-foot-with-city/

Business

Some important dates in the week ahead:" />

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Business

Europe’s economic turmoil is dragging the world economy down. Despite this destructive display of unnecessary masochism, many Americans still demand the sequester be allowed to continue slashing public spending." />

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Business

A project sponsored by California Treasurer Bill Lockyer is a great leap forward for presenting public data. Nothing else like it exists in muniland." />

blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2013/05/17/california-launches-the-best-new-source-of-muniland-data/

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