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Twitter fights government subpoena demanding Occupy Wall Street protester info

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Twitter has asked a New York state judge to throw out a court order...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich convicted of corruption

CHICAGO — A federal jury on Monday convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of corruption...

James Murdoch declines $6 million News Corp. bonus

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LOS ANGELES—Embattled News Corp. scion James Murdoch...

Campaigns pause after shootings

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President Barack Obama on Friday called the Colorado movie theater shooting...

Google Plans to Overhaul Search

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Google is planning major changes to its search engine that will make it easier and faster for users to get the information they need...

Food Court orders FDA to regulate antibiotics in livestock

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Late in the day Thursday, a New York court passed a ruling that will require the FDA to get serious about antibiotics in meat...

Obama doesn’t expect another recession

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted the U.S...

The Foreclosure Deal: Obama and the Banks Win Big While Homeowners...

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Those of you who have read our previous coverage of the back and forth between the state attorneys general and five major mortgage servicers know that the settlement announced on Thursday is a massive, complicated, multi-year deal negotiated by the country’s most ...

Report: $5.6 billion flowed to clean technology in ’09

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Venture capital firms invested at least $5.6 billion in clean technology in 2009 in North America, Europe, China and India, according to a preliminary tally announced Wednesday by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte...

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Pirate Bay Co-Founder’s Attorney Says Prosecution Violates Human Rights

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In 2009 Fredrik Neij, a co-founder of the file-sharing site the...

U.S. to buy Illinois prison even if it won’t hold terror...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to purchase a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., regardless of whether Congress allows terrorism suspects to be transferred there, a Department of Justice official said Thursday...