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Extension sought to Microsoft antitrust supervision
San Francisco - Microsoft and US authorities on Thursday jointly proposed an 18-month extension of...
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Airlines agree to 214-million-dollar fine for price fixing
Washington - Three international airlines have agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and pay a...
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US launches new crackdown on mortgage fraud
Washington - The United States launched a new crackdown Monday on mortgage fraud that may have...
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Justice Dept. to Investigate Ticketmaster/Live Nation Potential Merger
The Justice Department will examine the projected merger of ticketing giant Ticketmaster...
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Google-Yahoo Deal Scrapped, Yahoo Out-Of-Luck
Yesterday saw one of Yahoo’s last major chances for a
comeback from its steady decline as Google...
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Ex Intel's Engineer Faces Long Jail Term
Design engineer Biswamohan Pani, who previously
worked for Intel, was charged on Wednesday with...
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Google Bows Out of Ads Partnership with Yahoo!
Search
giant Google has decided to bow out of a previously planned partnership with
Yahoo!, after...
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Now Yahoo Needs A New Business Direction
With Google taking a step back from its initial partnership
plans, Yahoo seems to be lacking a...
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Google-Yahoo Partnership May Be Called Off
Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. may decide to call off their proposed partnership. The two Web search...
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Russian Antimonopoly Authorities Block Google Acquisition of Zao Begun
The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has recently
blocked the acquisition by Google of Zao...
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Discover settles lawsuit against Visa, MasterCard giants
New York - Discover Financial Services Tuesday settled an 18-billion-dollar antitrust lawsuit at...
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Yahoo, Google Forced To Postpone Advertising Deal
The advertising deal between Yahoo and Google had to be put on hold until the Justice Department...
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Google's Deal With Yahoo Delayed For A few Extra Weeks
The ongoing investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice will further delay the...
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The Justice Department Looking Into The Google-Yahoo Deal
There is a lot of hype surrounding the Justice Department’s
upcoming decision on the advertising...
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Think Tank Worried About Google/Yahoo Deal, Propose Solutions
The American Antitrust Institute, a non-profit organization,
has analyzed the proposed...
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Yahoo And Google Await Decision From The European Union
The European Union announced yesterday that it will be
reviewing the advertising partnership...
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Yahoo-Google Deal Under The Scope
The search
deal between Google and Yahoo is being investigated by former Walt
Disney vice...
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Officials Are Looking Closer to the Yahoo-Google Deal
The Justice Department has begun issuing civil investigation demands, also known as CIDs, that will...
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Bear Stearns Execs Hit by SEC, Criminal Charges
Two ex-Bear Stearns fund managers have been hit with both civil and criminal charges, by the...
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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Backs Sirius-XM Merger
The Justice Department said in late March that fears over the fact that the merger would hurt...
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Sirius-XM Merger Cleared by US Regulators
New York-based Sirius Satellite, subscription-based satellite radio firm, has received the go-ahead...
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Wesley Snipes Acquitted Of Tax Fraud Accusations
The star of Blade Trilogy, the actor Wesley Snipes was
acquitted on Friday of of felony tax fraud...
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Medical Device Makers Settle Kickbacks Probe for $311M
Four medical device makers reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice totaling $311...
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Six US States Requested An Extension of Microsoft Oversight
On Tuesday six US stated requested to a Washington court to extend the official...
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Kenneth Rice Former Enron Exec Gets 15 Million Dollar Fine
Kenneth Rice, a former chief executive officer of Enron Broadband Services (EBS), was ordered to...
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British Airways Drops 13% In Profits; Sets Aside Provision
British Airways announced Friday its annual pre-tax profits
of 611 million pounds (1.2 billion...
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U.S.
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Obama won't prosecute CIA officials for harsh techniques
Washington - CIA officials who used harsh interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects...
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Ending flows of drugs, guns atop Obama's Mexico visit
Washington - As the death toll in Mexico's drug wars soars into the thousands, the United States...
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US captain kidnapped by pirates is freed
Washington - US Navy snipers shot dead three Somali pirates who were holding the captain of a...
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US signals huge anti-drug push on Mexican cartels
The United States Monday announced a huge boost in its cooperation with Mexican law enforcement...
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Obama administration drops "enemy combatant"
Washington - US President Barack Obama has dropped previous policy of labeling Guantanamo Bay...
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Pilot Involved in 2007 San Francisco Oil Spill Pleads Guilty
The pilot behind the massive oil spill in the San Francisco Bay in a November 2007 incident pleaded...
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Court Denies Vaccines – Autism Link
There is no scientific evidence to prove childhood vaccines cause autism, according to a special...
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Obama Administration Has Same Stance in Rendition Case
Surprisingly, the Obama administration is supporting the controversial anti-terrorism policy of the...
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Senate Panel Approves Eric Holder for Attorney General Post
Eric Holder is close to becoming America’s first African-American attorney general after the...
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Attorney General-Designate Holder: 'Waterboarding Is Torture'
Attorney General-designate Eric H. Holder Jr. said in his confirmation speech before the Senate...
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Blagojevich defies party; names replacement for Obama
Washington - Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed a replacement Tuesday for...
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High Court Dismisses New York Times Libel Suit Appeal
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit of a
former Army scientist against the New...
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Obama calls on Blagojevich to resign
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama called on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign...
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Illinois governor arrested for trying to sell Obama's Senate seat
Washington - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested Tuesday on...
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Holder to lead US law enforcement, terror response
Washington - Eric Holder is set to become the first African- American to head the US Justice...
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Verizon Fires Employees Nosing Through Obama’s Phone Records
Verizon wireless has fired employees who looked through
President-elect Barack Obama’s old cell...
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Bush The Clement Grants 14 Pardons and Commutes 2 Sentences
In on of his last actions as the United States President, George W. Bush has granted 14 pardons and...
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Obama Focused on Assembling Cabinet Quickly
United States’ President-Elect, Barack Obama, seems to be very aware about the fact that time is...
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Obama fills White House positions, still vetting Clinton
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled new members of future White House...
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Obama still vetting Clinton, may pick Daschle for health secretary
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled who will develop his key policy...
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Obama chooses top law enforcement officer, reports say
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama has selected lawyer Eric Holder to become the top law...
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Locy Cleared of All Charges
A federal appeals court threw out a contempt order requiring fines of up to $5,000 a day against a...
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Veterans Day Celebrated on November 11
Both a federal holiday and a state holiday
in all states, Veterans Day, a day dedicated to the...
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Nazi-sympathizers charged with threat to assassinate Obama
Washington - Two Nazi-sympathizers have been charged with making threats against Barack Obama after...
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Senator Stevens guilty on corruption charges
Washington - The longest serving Republican in the US Senate was found guilty of corruption related...
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Google CEO backs Obama
San Francisco - Google CEO Eric Schmidt is to endorse Barack Obama and start campaigning for him,...
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Bush Approves Anti-Piracy Bill
On Monday, an intellectual-property enforcement bill was
signed into law by United States...
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Judge Rejects Evidence in Corruption Case of Senator Stevens
The federal judge presiding over Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption case excluded some evidence on...
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Specials
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Extension Granted in Google Book Search Settlement Case
The Justice Department is keeping a close eye on the antitrust implications of the settlement...
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Johnson&Johnson Sued by the United States
The United States has sued the Johnson&Johnson company for marketing the heart drug...
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Black History Month - A Studying Opportunity
All over the U.S., as well as in many other countries in the African Diaspora, February is...
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U.S. Court Denies Autism Case
Thursday, a United States special court denied a case that had been brought forth by three...
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Supreme Court Kills Child-Porn Law
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court decided not to change a ruling that stated...
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Calif. Supreme Court Allows Good Samaritans To Be Sued
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who pulled her friend out of a car after...
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Court Releases Documents In Hatfill Anthrax Case
A federal court released yesterday almost 100 documents that
it used to mistakenly connect...
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Attorney General Is Fine After Collapse While Holding Speech
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey is said to feel better after his collapse while holding a...
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Senate Aide Charged With Children Porn Possession
Jeff Rosato, 32, a senior staffer for Sen. Barbara Boxer has been fired after he was charged by...
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LG, Sharp And Chunghwa Guilty Of Fixing Prices
LG, Sharp and Chunghwa have pleaded guilty for fixing prices for their LCD screens which have been...
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This Time Maybe Microsoft Should Buy Yahoo
Recently the deal between Google and Yahoo, the biggest
companies in the Internet search market,...
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Reports: Google-Yahoo Deal To Be Revised
Yahoo and Google are substantially narrowing their proposed advertising agreement to meet the...
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Google And Yahoo May Not Join Forces After All
The partnership between the world’s most popular Internet giants might not happen after all as...
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President Bush Signs Copyright Infringement Bill
Yesterday, United States President George W. Bush signed a
bill related to the highly debated...
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ATI And Nvidia Investigation Closed
AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, announced on Monday that the Department Of Justice has closed the...
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Hacker Indicted
The 20-year-old hacker, David Kernell from Knoxville has
been indicted for cracking the email...
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Tennessee Student Indicted In Palin’s E-mail Hacking Case
Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for...
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Hacker of Palin’s E-Mail Account, David Kernell, Indicted
David Kernell, the 20-year-old Tennessee college student who hacked U.S. vice presidential...
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2 Europeans Charged in the U.S. for DDOS Attacks
Two Europeans were indicted by a Los Angeles federal judge for involvement in the distribution of...
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Remains Found Near Site Where Steve Fossett Crashed
Investigators finally found out what happened with Steve Fossett’s single-engine plane on the day...
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FBI Raids Target Two Cuyahoga County Judges
The FBI raided the chambers of two judges –
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judges -- Steven Terry...
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Bruce Ivins Said He Knew Who the Anthrax Killer Was
Bruce Ivins, the main suspect in anthrax
case sent himself an e-mail saying he new the identity of...
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U.S. State Department Employee Pleads Guilty
Being accused of illegally accessing close to 200
confidential passport files of several...
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Governor Palin’s E-Mail Hackers Could Steer Clear of Prosecution
This week,
Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account gov.palin@yahoo.com was broken into, after hackers
who...
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Anthrax Suspect May Not Have Acted Alone
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said that scientist Bruce Ivins couldn’t have worked...
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Patrick Leahy Questions The FBI Investigation Into Anthrax Attacks
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
one of the two senators targeted in the...
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FBI Investigation Of The Anthrax Case Under NAS Scrutiny
The FBI director
Robert S. Mueller III announced that a review of the Anthrax Case will...
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Bernie Ward Begins Today His 7-Year-Sentence
Bernie Ward, the 57-year-old former Roman Catholic priest
and former San Francisco radio talk show...
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Amerigroup to Resolve Fraud Allegations for $225 Million
Health insurer Amerigroup Corp will pay $225
million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the...
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U.S. Department of Justice Is Convinced Ivins Was The Anthrax Killer
According to new evidence released by the government, it seems that Bruce Ivins, the alleged...
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Health
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Quest Agrees to Pay $302 M to Settle ‘Misbranding’ Case
Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay $302 million to settle charges that one of its business units...
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Good News for Medical Marijuana Users
Recently, U.S Attorney General Eric Holder said his Justice Department would leave it to states...
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Medical Marijuana Supported By President Obama
President Barack Obama said as a candidate that states should decide their own medical marijuana...
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Depart. Of Justice Seeks Damages from J&J, Scios Unit
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced its intention to join two lawsuits against a unit...
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Secrets Behind Peanut Corporation of America
After Peanut Corporation of America was found guilty for the salmonella outbreak which had killed...
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Court Finds No Link Between Vaccines And Autism
Three families who claimed vaccines caused their children’s autism were denied compensation...
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Ely Lilly Settles For More Than $800 Million In Zyprexa Lawsuit
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay approximately $800 million for unapproved marketing and...
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Attorney General Mukasey Loses Consciousness, But Feels Just Fine
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed during a speech on Thursday night, being taken to the...
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What’s New in Anthrax Case? Judge Decides to Make Some Records Public
A federal judge decided to make public some
records that were sealed as the government...
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Nursing Home Fined After Employee Allegedly Killed 6 People With "Medication Cocktails"
A nursing home from McHenry County where six people suspiciously passed away was fined almost...
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FBI Requests Scientific Review Of Controversial Anthrax Case
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said an
independent team of researchers and engineers from the...
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The Role of Psychologists in Military Interrogations, Subject of Debate
There are already many divergent opinions over the role US
psychologists should play in military...
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The Double Life of US Scientist Bruce Ivins
A US Army scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation lead a double life. The...
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US Scientist Suspect in Anthrax Case Reportedly Commits Suicide
A top US government scientist who helped
investigate a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001...
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NY Times Comes Out of Anthrax-Related Suit On Top
On Monday, a US appeals court reinforced the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by a former government...
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Government Pays Steven Hatfill $5.8M over Anthrax Scare
Dubious American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert Steven Hatfill, whose name was caught...
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Former Anthrax Suspect Gets $5.82 M Lawsuit Settlement
The Justice Department offered $5.82 million settlement to the former number one suspect in the...
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Walgreens Pays Up $35M to Settle Whistleblower Allegations
Leading pharmacy chain Walgreens agreed to a $35 million settlement, according to the U.S....
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Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism
The
parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe that a mercury-based preservative,
thimesoral,...
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Former USA Today Reporter Has to Pay No Fine until Appeal Is Over
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit on Tuesday blocked fines up to...
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Sen. Vincent Fumo Leaves Hospital 1 Week after Heart Attack
A week after suffering a heart attack, State Sen. Vincent J.
Fumo, D-Phila, was released from a...
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UCLA Researcher’s Home Damaged Second Time in Four Months
The home of UCLA researcher was firebombed on Tuesday,
marking the second attack at the same...
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World
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"Al-Qaeda sleeper" pleads guilty to terrorism charge in US
Washington - Ali al-Marri, an alleged "al-Qaeda sleeper" accused...
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Mexico shuts schools nationwide as flu deaths reach 149
Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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Domestic Violence Clashes With "Harmonious Family" Image
Hanoi - Bui Hien Dung says she doesn't know why her husband demanded she have an abortion, why...
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Authoritarian Kazakhstan Prepares To Assume OSCE Chairmanship In 2010
Astana/Moscow - When Western politicians speak of Kazakhstan with a gleam in their eyes, they're...
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NSA, Bush, Cheney Sued by EFF over Illegal Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit on
Thursday against the National Security...
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Yemeni President Vows to Bring to Justice Planners of US Embassy Attack
Yemen will pursue and bring to justice those behind the terrorist attack on the US embassy,...
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Anthrax Target Leahy Skeptical Of FBI Findings On Suspect
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), one of those targeted in the anthrax...
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Anthrax Case Still Questioned
After facing people’s doubts about the way they handled
scientist Bruce Ivins’ case, the FBI held...
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Anthrax-Related Case Leaves Many Loose Ends
The case involving Army scientist Bruce Ivins and his
alleged implication in 2001's...
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FBI Is Allowed To Examine The Computers Used By Ivins
A judge authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search two public library computers that...
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Main Suspect In the Anthrax Case Is Dead
The 2001 anthrax case is on the verge of being solved. The
Justice Department is getting ready to...
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Cybercrime Case Solved
Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant,
have been charged for hacking into...
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Texas Executes Mexican National Amid International Protests
Authorities in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas executed a Mexican national murderer despite...
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Texas Puts Mexican Killer to Death Despite International Protests
In a case which sparked international controversy, Texas executed Jose E.
Medellin on Tuesday...
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Pakistani Al-Qaeda Collaborator Arrested after Shooting at U.S. Soldiers
A Pakistani neuroscientist who had been trained by the United States and is now suspected of...
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Suicide of Scientist Linked to Anthrax Attacks Case Leaves Questions
The United States scientist who supposedly killed himself this week apparently did it because...
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Anthrax Suspect and Justice Department Reach $5.82M Settlement
The United States’ Justice Department and Steven Hatfill, a
former Army scientist who became a...
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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Handgun Ban
After having the decisive vote on issues regarding the Guantanamo Bay inmates, the death penalty...
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400 Arrests in Operation Malicious Mortgage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 406 persons which have been indicted on charges of...
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Violent Crime Drops 1.4 Percent in 2007
Violent crimes such as murders and rapes were 1.4 fewer in the United States in 2007, the FBI...
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FBI Kept Record of Detainee Abuse, Tried to Fight It
The FBI created a "war crimes file" in 2002 in which its agents gathered evidence of...
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3,000 Cocaine Convicts Have Their Sentences Cut
More
than 3,000 crack cocaine inmates in Washington
had their sentences cut after the federal...
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No Cellphones at School, Court Ruled
The Appellate Court ruled Tuesday that the Department of Education
has the right to impose a cell...
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US Army Veteran Charged With Espionage
US authorities have issued a statement about the arrest of a US
Army veteran who is suspected of...
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Lawsuit against Veterans Affairs Begins
Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs insists it
has done a lot to improve healthcare...
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FBI Arrests Suspect in Las Vegas Ricin Case
FBI agents arrested a suspect in the case of the ricin found in the Las Vegas hotel, said FBI...
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Officials Check on Children Safety at Texas Polygamist Ranch
A religious retreat built by imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sealed off on Friday to...
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Pentagon Declassifies ’03 Memo that Approved Harsh Interrogation
The Justice Department released in 2003 a legal memo which gave authority to use the so-called...
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HUD Secretary Resigns amid Contract Scandal
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso R. Jackson resigned amid growing tension over...
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HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson Plans to Resign
Under pressure after accusations of improper allocation of federal contracts, the U.S. Housing and...
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Technology
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Ruckus And TotalMusic Say Goodbye
Ruckus Network, one of the major players in the DRM-ed “free music” download space that...
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Heartland Payment Gets Breached by Hackers
On Tuesday, Heartland Payment System officially announced that their electronic payment database...
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Hackers Outdo Themselves with Major Breach at Heartland Payment Systems
Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest credit-card processor in the country,...
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Yahoo Without a CEO and Left Behind By Microsoft
Having failed to reverse Yahoo's stalled growth and plunging profits, Mr. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder,...
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Yahoo Starts CEO-hunt As Yang Decides to Step Down
The moment we found out Yahoo was left out in the rain by its last and only savior - Google - we...
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Intel Engineer Indicted for Stealing Trade Secrets
Back in August, police raiding the apartment of former Intel
engineer Biswamohan Pani on a tip...
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Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Won’t Bid For Yahoo, Shares Tumble
Sometimes in business, as in a relationship, there is time
when you should yes. Otherwise, it will...
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Google Knocks Yahoo Down! Is Microsoft Back In The Game?
The advertising agreement between search giants Yahoo and
Google has been officially terminated,...
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NJ Teenager Guilty of Cyber Attack on Scientology Web Sites
A New Jersey teenager will reportedly plead guilty to charges of carrying out DDOS attack on the...
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The PRO IP Act Has Bush By Its Side
The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO IP) of 2008 gained...
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Google, Yahoo in talks over advertising deal
San Francisco - Executives from Yahoo and Google are negotiating with the US Department of Justice...
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Google and Yahoo Delay Ad Deal
Google and Yahoo said Friday that they both decided to delay the start of their search advertising...
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Update1: Yahoo, Google Forced To Put Deal On Hold For DOJ Investigation
The advertising deal between Yahoo and Google had to be put on hold until the Justice Department...
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California Lawmakers Warn DOJ About Rejecting The Google-Yahoo Deal
The Google-Yahoo ordeal is far from being over, and while
some regulators fear the deal may...
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Judge Strikes Down RIAA Victory, Orders Retrial of Jammie Thomas Case
Judge Michael J. Davis overturned a landmark federal jury decision against single mom Jammie...
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AAI: There Is A Procompetitive Side To The Google-Yahoo Deal
While the Google – Yahoo partnership is still under the
Department of Justice scrutiny, the...
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Google Defends Its Partnership with Yahoo against Criticism
Following the announcement Google and Yahoo made back in
June that they signed a non-exclusive...
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Google Dismisses Monopoly, Anti-Competition Claims In Yahoo Deal
After endless discussions on how a Google-Yahoo deal would create monopoly and disrupt competition...
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EFF Takes Legal Action Against NSA’s Surveillance Practices
Civil right organization EFF this week continued its quest
to stop unconstitutional surveillance...
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Google Rejects Study by Firm Predicting Ad Price Increase
Google rejected Tuesday the results of a study released months ago which predicts a 22 percent ad...
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Google-Yahoo Ad Deal under EU Investigation
The potential deal between giants Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is under tight investigation from the...
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Antitrust Lawyer Hired To Challenge The Google-Yahoo Deal In Court?
Amid concerns that the Google-Yahoo deal would create
inequities on the search advertising market,...
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Advertisers Fear Google – Yahoo Deal Will Diminish Competition
The advertising deal between Google and Yahoo is not exactly
the kind of deal to make marketers...
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Report: Confidential data again goes missing in Britain
London - A computer disk containing the personal data of around 5,000 prison workers in Britain has...
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European Court Rules That U.K. Hacker Can Be Extradited
The European Court of Human Rights has denied U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against
demands...
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Lori Drew Has “No Law” On Her Side, Seeks Dismissal Of All Charges
Lori Drew, the woman allegedly responsible for the suicide
of 13-year-old MySpace user Megan...
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Do Feds Track Cell Phones without Oversight?
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have...
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Government Sued Over Unconstitutional Cell Phone Tracking Practices
The controversy over mobile phone tracking is far from being
a settled issue, as two civil rights...
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38 Charged In Phishing Scam in U.S. and Romania
Thirty-eight people in U.S and Romania have been charged Monday
with stealing personal information...
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