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“Anxious Xers” and “angry independents” may replace “soccer moms” as the object of desire for presidential candidates in 2008. It’s the time in the campaign season when Washington’s legions of pollsters, policy wonks and political consultants go looking for that ...

Chet Currier, whose byline was familiar to millions of readers of newspaper business pages during a 37-year journalism career with Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, has died. He was 62. Currier died Monday of complications from prostate cancer, according ...

Job applicants beware: Potential employers may know a lot more about you than you think. Corporate recruiters have a number of tools at their disposal aimed at finding the perfect candidate, including Internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo. ...

BOSTON — If in Congress you don’t succeed, try, try before the Supreme Court — at least that is what drug liability litigators are hoping. After a trial attorneys’ advocacy group unsuccessfully lobbied for the inclusion of an express right ...

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who celebrated his 88th birthday after 32 years in office, has raised more than $500,000 for a re-election campaign in 2009, when he’ll be 90. He marked his birthday Tuesday with guilty pleas by operators ...

Enron Corp. investors gathered at a Houston courthouse to urge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn to pressure President George W. Bush to take their side in a shareholder lawsuit pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The investors want to recover $40 ...

Lawyers who recovered about $7.2 billion in settlements for Enron Corp. investors damaged by the energy trader’s collapse are slated to get about $700 million in fees under a plan to distribute the money. Officials of the University of California ...

Julie Tunnell remembers standing in her debris-strewn driveway when the tall man in blue jeans approached. Her northern San Diego tudor-style home had been incinerated a week earlier in the largest wildfire in California history. The blaze in October and ...

GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s diabetes pill Avandia should be removed from the market because of heart risks, a U.S. drug safety scientist said. There is “no evidence of major clinical health benefits” from Avandia, and leaving it on the market may “cost ...

The U.S. Treasury said it will borrow a net $73 billion this quarter, more than forecast three months ago, and a similar amount next quarter as government spending rises and economic growth moderates. The borrowing estimate compared with the Treasury’s ...

Attorney Kirke Kickingbird with Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker in Oklahoma City is part of a group in Oklahoma pushing for inclusion of Indian law on the state’s bar exam. He taught Indian law at the Oklahoma City University School ...