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Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg Wins Bailout Suit But No Damages
Hank Greenberg won his fight to hold the U.S. responsible for a bitter pill it forced down the throat of American International Group Inc. But that's about it. The judge who called illegally onerous ...
New Texas Flood Threat Looms; Tropical Storm Carlos Growls in Pacific
As Tropical Storm Carlos churns in the Pacific, threatening Mexico's coast, the Atlantic's second storm of the year may be developing over the Yucatan Peninsula, with the potential to reach Texas and ...
Scope of Federal Hack Attack Widens as White House Weighs Responses
More federal personnel records have been hacked than previously reported and U.S. officials are weighing responses ranging from new counterintelligence initiatives to destroying the data in the ...
U.S. Safety Officials Call For Collision Prevention Systems in Cars and Trucks
U.S. safety officials on Monday called on automakers to begin installing collision avoidance systems in all new passenger and commercial vehicles, saying existing technology could save lives and ...
Obama Urges Congress to Quickly Pass Cyber Security Legislation
President Barack Obama vowed on Monday that the United States would aggressively bolster its cyber defenses, as U.S. officials said the probe into a massive breach of federal government networks has ...
Hewlett-Packard Using $100M in Insurance to Settle ‘Botched Takeover’ Lawsuit
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to pay $100 million out of insurance proceeds to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders who claimed they lost money in the botched takeover of Autonomy Corp., according to ...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Retaliation For Massive Hacking of Worker Data
The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government has ever suffered, members of Congress said on Sunday. "There ...
Iceland to Hedge Funds: Don’t Sue Over Planned Tax on Failed Bank Assets
The prime minister of Iceland said any hedge fund planning to challenge the legal basis of a planned tax on failed bank assets should think again. "If they wanted to make some kind of an example out ...