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Former Facebook bad boy Sean Parker doing a whole lot of good

At just 35, Sean Parker has become public enemy number-one to the music industry with his music-sharing site, Napster, and made billions as the first president of Facebook. Today the serial entrepreneur is shifting his focus and personal wealth to philanthropy by establishing The Parker Foundation. Parker sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric to talk about his past, his future and his plan to change the world.

Victims confront Boston bomber at sentencing, call him 'despicable'

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – The mother of one of the three people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, speaking at the Wednesday hearing where a U.S. judge will formally sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death, said the convicted bomber made “despicable” choices. The same federal jury that earlier this year found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath voted in

White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter

By Tom Polansek ABBEVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) – Leaders of America’s core white supremacist groups have a laundry list of perceived grievances. Interviews with half-a-dozen prominent white nationalists reveal a movement that they say has been re-energized by such things as the election of America’s first black president and, more recently, what movement leaders describe as “a siege” against white police officers. “A lot of the whites in the U.S.