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Just a month after parent company NBC set the stage for widespread staff cuts, cable business network CNBC announced it would cut a quarter of its online operation and 4 percent of its broadcast staff in a move to consolidate…

Two of the civilians who were on board the Navy submarine which collided with a Japanese fishing boat came forward today, claiming they saw the captain check the ocean surface by periscope prior to surfacing.

An American submarine surfaced under a Japanese fishing boat yesterday, sinking the smaller craft. Nine Japanese are feared dead. Gwen Ifill talks with Navy Captain Jim Bush and military author Sherry Sontag about what went wrong.