Recent events in New Jersey seem sure to solidify the state’s reputation as another Louisiana, widely known for its culture of political corruption. The state has endured despite decades of criminal prosecutions and tearful public confessions because of a set of circumstances and institutional arrangements.Read more here. High-res

Recent events in New Jersey seem sure to solidify the state’s reputation as another Louisiana, widely known for its culture of political corruption.

The state has endured despite decades of criminal prosecutions and tearful public confessions because of a set of circumstances and institutional arrangements.

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Paul Ryan tells Yahoo News part of the reason he’s not running for president in 2016 is that he wants to protect a video project he’s been working on for the past two years from second-guessing about his motives for doing it.Read more here. High-res

Paul Ryan tells Yahoo News part of the reason he’s not running for president in 2016 is that he wants to protect a video project he’s been working on for the past two years from second-guessing about his motives for doing it.

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Photos of the day - March 4, 2015

A Buddhist monk prays at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, a coal miner waits for a bus after exiting the underground of the Zasyadko mine following an explosion in Donetsk, Ukraine and Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees follows through on a hit against the Philadelphia Phillies during a spring training game at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, widows daubed in colors dance as they take part in the Holi celebrations organised by non-governmental organization Sulabh International at a widows’ ashram at Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and women are reflected in a puddle as they walk in front of the Palace of Culture during rainy day in Warsaw are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)

Photo credits: (from top) Reuters/Damir Sagolj, AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Getty Images/Brian Blanco, Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee, Reuters/Kacper Pempel

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Photos of the day - March 2, 2015

A firefighter tries to stop a blaze in Noordhoek Manor old age home, Cape Town, South Africa, a Hamann is covered at the Geneva International Motor Show, a homeless man reads a book in central Athens, Yahoo Senior Vice President of Americas Sales Lisa Utzschneider, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Yahoo Finance Chief Ken Goldman and Bruce Aust, Vice Chairman, Nasdaq Vice Chairman Bruce Aust stand at the opening bell at NASDAQ in New York City, an Afghan farmer works in his fields in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, a mortar round sticks out of the ground as a car passes a destroyed tank at a former Ukrainian army checkpoint in the Ukraine and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, flanked by one of his security guards, addresses the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)

Photo credits: (from top) EPA/Nic Bothma, Harold Cunningham/Getty Images, AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News, EPA/Sayed Mustafa, AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, AP Photo/Cliff Owen

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Yahoo! celebrates 20th anniversary

It’s been 20 years since two Stanford University electrical engineering students created a small website that would become the tech giant Yahoo! Company founders Jerry Yang and David Filo debuted “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” in January 1994. In its first iteration, the site was a directory other pages on the web, organized in a hierarchy.

It was not the massive searchable index of online destinations that the Yahoo! search engine is today. The site grew faster than the pair expected. They renamed it Yahoo!, an acronym for, “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,” and on March 2, 1995 it was incorporated. As we celebrate 20 years of purple and yodeling (the company’s iconic audio trademark), here’s a look back at key moments in Yahoo!’s history. (Yahoo News)

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Happy Birthday Yahoo

Ken Goldman was joined by Yahoo editors Joe Zee, Bobbi Brown, Paula Froehlich, Michele Promaulayko and Lindsay Powers, and other Yahoos - including those from Tumblr, Brightroll and Flurry! - to ring the opening bell at NASDAQ. 

Photography by Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News

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