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Twitter filed for its initial public offering Thursday, which means we get to see a lot of previously private money and traffic numbers about the San Francisco-based social media giant. Some takeaways from the public IPO filing, or "Form S-1," of the seven-year-old company:

When the federal health law first passed, insurance brokers feared they'd lose out to the new online marketplaces. But as millions of people start looking into buying insurance, brokers say they're still needed when the purchasing decisions get complicated.

Congress: On Day 3 of the shutdown, a Washington made tense by partisan acrimony was put even more on edge by a bizarre incident. A woman who drove erratically near the White House and then the U.S. Capitol, causing the legislative complex to be locked down, ended up dead after a high speed chase that left a Capitol Hill police office injured.

Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number.

When states and the federal government rolled out online marketplaces to help people buy health insurance on Tuesday, you'd think that old-fashioned insurance brokers would be worried.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday adding California to the growing list of states allowing immigrants living in the country illegally to obtain driver's licenses.

The Miramar Air Show has been cancelled because of the government shutdown. The event was scheduled for October 4 and 5.

Richard Rodriguez's autobiographical essay collection, Darling, chronicles a complex personal history and attempts to reconcile the author's sexual, religious and cultural identities. Reviewer Cord Jefferson calls it an "eccentric mélange" — a true salvation while wandering the literary desert.

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the government shutdown - which forced the furlough of 70 percent of the CIA and NSA workforce - amounted to a 'dreamland' of opportunity for foreign spies agencies.