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President Barack Obama’s call for strict open-Internet rules contradicts his appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission and may complicate agency efforts to forge compromise in a polarized political atmosphere.

The disclosure of December emails by General Motors Co. shows that even after Mary Barra took over as chief executive officer, the automaker failed to disclose key information about its ignition-switch recall — raising more questions about what she knew and how quickly she’s been changing GM’s culture.

True Title Company, a title agency that provides title insurance protection and closing services, announced Monday that it will open an office in Festus next month.

President Barack Obama called for the “strongest possible rules” to protect the open Internet, advocating stricter controls than a regulator he appointed and causing shares of Comcast Corp. and other broadband providers to drop.

The nation’s largest law firms are decidedly Democratic in their political contributions.

Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, was cleared at trial of tax conspiracy despite the bank’s historic admission in 2009 that it helped thousands of U.S. clients abuse Swiss bank secrecy to cheat the Internal Revenue Service.

Lawyers suing Takata Corp. over customer claims of lost vehicle value connected to air-bag recalls asked that they be combined in a single federal court, which would give them a united front in pursuing the cases.

The crime of stealing tax refunds through identity theft is “no longer exploding,” U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday.

Online legal services provider LegalZoom has teamed with Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart-owned, membership warehouse store, to offer families and small businesses deals on legal services, including estate planning and attorney consultations.

Lawyer David Boies has a shot at an upset win in the trial of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s $25 billion bailout case against the U.S. government, a turnaround from the weak odds he was given just a month ago.

Most of America isn’t interested in this week’s elections. Wall Street is an exception.