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For about five seconds on Monday, Jan Smeekens was Olympic champion, hero to a nation, and all that goes with it. Until, gut-wrenchingly, he wasn't....�

The non-profit group Better Markets filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department on Monday to block what it called an "unlawful" $13 billion settlement with JP Morgan over bad mortgage loans sold to investors before the financial crisis. The record settlement with the bank, which was reached in November, does not release JP Morgan from potential criminal liability over the mortgages it packaged into bonds. But Better Markets said it was still appalled that the settlement gave the bank "blanket civil immunity" for its conduct without sufficient judicial review. "The Wall Street bailouts were bad enough, but now taxpayers are being forced to accept a secretive backroom deal that may well have been another sweetheart deal," said Dennis Kelleher, the chief executive of Better Markets....�

Carl Icahn said he sees no reason to persist with his proposal that Apple Inc buy back $50 billion (30 billion pounds) of its shares, given the recent share repurchases by the iPhone maker. Icahn said in a letter to Apple shareholders posted on his website that he was pleased that Apple CEO Tim Cook and the board have exhibited an "opportunistic" and "aggressive" approach to share repurchases....�

For years, Charlie White has dated the "hottest athlete" of the Winter Olympics - but he doesn't want anyone to know about it....�

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon ......�

Millions Trapped in Health-Law Coverage Gap: Like millions of other Americans caught in a mismatch......�

 'The 1 Percent Work Harder' When the going gets tough, the rich dudes stick together. Or at least rich dude Sam Zell did in an interview with Bloomberg TV Wednesday. The billionaire chairman of Equity Group Investments backed up fellow rich guy Tom Perkins, who set off a firestorm when he recently compared the "progressive war on the 1 percent" to Nazi anti-Semitism in a letter to the Wall Street Journal. (He later apologized for using the word "Kristallnacht" but defended the overall "message.") "I guess my feeling is that he's right," Zell said when asked by Bloomberg's Betty Liu how he felt about Perkins' stance. ..�

The new head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, delivers her first testimony to the House of Representatives on Tuesday and the Senate on Thursday. "Given the perception of Janet Yellen being a dove, if she doesn't come over extra-dovish it could be a bit of a disappointment." Both stocks and the dollar initially retreated when Friday's U.S. payrolls report showed a rise of only 113,000 in January, falling well short of forecasts....�

'Dumb Starbucks' Coffee Shop Appears in L.A.'s Los FelizThere's no word on who's behind the project, but there's a line for free coffee and pastries purchased from Vons....�

Medical marijuana gains traction in the Deep South Medical marijuana has been a non-starter in recent years in the Deep South, where many Republican lawmakers feared it could lead to widespread drug use and social ills. That now appears to be changing, with proposals to allow a form of medical marijuana gaining momentum in a handful of Southern states....�

The reigning U.S. champion remains determined to win the ladies singles but acknowledges Russia's teen phenom is the one to beat....�