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CHICAGO – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) Friday said quarterly net profit more than tripled as its U.S. business improved further and signaled it might pursue a spinoff or other options for its Chipotle Mexican-style restaurant chain. Excluding one-time items, the results fell a penny short of Wall Street analysts’ average estimate, …

WASHINGTON – The NAACP (search), the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, is refusing to cooperate with an IRS investigation into an allegedly improper political speech, charging that the timing of the probe was itself politically motivated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in October that the …

LONDON – Ben Kingsley (search) and his wife, Alexandra, have separated after 15 months of marriage, the actor’s publicist said Wednesday. “For some time now, Ben and Alexandra have been leading separate lives,” said a statement issued by Ildiko Nagy, Kingsley’s Los Angeles publicist. “The separation is very amicable, they …