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Happy anniversary to the two White Stripes, who this week celebrated their 10th year as a band with the release of their sixth album. That they got this far is something of a miracle. Jack and Meg White formed the ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, entering his third year as head of the nation’s top market regulator, says he’s trying to strike a balance between protecting investors and keeping U.S. companies competitive. “There’s no question that regulation ...

The Bush administration asked a federal judge to prevent five states from investigating whether AT&T and Verizon Communications provided customer information to a U.S. intelligence agency. U.S. Justice Department officials said efforts by the states to subpoena AT&T, the largest ...

BOSTON — In the wake of a new study linking the Type II diabetes drug Avandia to a 43 percent increase in the risk of a heart attack, the plaintiffs’ bar is building its failure-to-warn case against GlaxoSmithKline, the drug’s ...

BALTIMORE — The defense attorneys were confident: They had found the chink in the expert’s armor and exploited it with a stunning on-the-stand impeachment. The jurors, though, saw the exchange differently. When jury consultant Gillian Drake talked to them after ...

BALTIMORE — Congress intended to protect veterans from being swindled when, during the Civil War, it limited what fees lawyers could collect up front in benefits appeals. The result, even though the limits have since been amended slightly, has been ...

BALTIMORE — The conventional wisdom on memory is that it acts like a digital tape recorder, able to freeze events in our brains exactly as they happened. The reality, however, is that memory is malleable and susceptible to change over ...

Never in the history of Wall Street have analysts been so bearish. The good news is they’re also getting it right more often, helping make investors richer by betting against corporate America. Thank the regulatory hammer of former New York ...

Insurance companies are competing to sell no-frills health plans to a generation of so-called young immortals, Americans ages 18 to 34 who don’t have medical insurance because they doubt they’ll need it. Aetna Inc., WellPoint Inc. and about 160 other ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo used stem cells from a mouse embryo to grow kidneys in mice lacking the organs, a step toward creating human body parts for transplant patients. Scientists led by Hiromitsu Nakauchi at the university’s Laboratory ...

ABA offers guidebook on dispute resolution A new book from the American Bar Association is aimed at helping consumers resolve disputes from small claims actions to discrimination at work and property-related matters with neighbors. Attorneys, judges, mediators, arbitrators and academics ...