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American Airlines, the world’s largest air carrier, has sued Google Inc., claiming the most-used search engine on the Internet is violating its trademark by using the company’s name to trigger paid ads for competitors. American, a unit of AMR Corp., ...

A hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft was “feeble, barely articulate” and “clearly stressed” after then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in 2004 sought an extension of secret eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, according to notes taken by the FBI director. FBI Director ...

The AFL-CIO is urging lawmakers to raise taxes on executives of hedge funds and buyout firms and is encouraging managers of pension funds to limit their investments in the private pools of capital. The federation of 55 unions, the biggest ...

Francis Ford Coppola was in a mellow mood recently. And he should have been: The French government had just named him an officer of the Legion of Honor. Frederic Desagneaux, the French consul general in San Francisco, pinned a medal ...

If every human being in the world vanished tomorrow, New York City’s subway system would last about 36 hours before flooding. Twenty years hence, Lexington Avenue would be a river. The Statue of Liberty would remain intact, though very possibly ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was wrong. So were U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Merrill Lynch & Co. Chief Executive Officer Stanley O’Neal. The subprime mortgage industry’s problems were contained, they all said. It turns out that the ...

When Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley was traveling through the southern part of his state last week, he treated two staffers to ice cream at a local Dairy Queen. When it came time to pay for the $2.75 desserts, he dug ...

Comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart owe much of their popularity to the YouTube video-sharing site. YouTube hopes they’ll pay their debt. Colbert, host of the Colbert Report, and Stewart, anchor of the news satire The Daily Show With Jon ...

Antarctica may be a great place to avoid the heat and the crowds. For U.S. citizens living there, one thing can’t be avoided: taxes. The U.S. Tax Court ruled that the approximately 1,100 workers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, ...

1-800 Contacts sues rival over use of Google AdWords 1-800 Contacts, a retailer of contact lenses, sued Lens.com for using its trademark to generate competing online advertisements, in the latest suit over Google’s AdWords program. Lens.com, based in Louisiana, Mo., ...

Mark Chinn urges attorneys to approach divorce cases with a mindset to benefit their clients, not mow over their clients’ opponents. contributed photo In his early years as a divorce lawyer, Mark Chinn modeled his litigation style on the U.S. ...