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FAA Reports Recent Near-Collision of Jet With Drone
Federal officials say a U.S. jet airliner nearly collided in March with an airborne drone in the sky over Tallahassee, Florida. Jim Williams of the Federal Aviation Administration's unmanned aircraft ...
Class Action Threat: Corp. Bylaws Can Make Suing and Losing Investors Pay Legal Costs, Says Delaware Supreme Ct.
Delaware's Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company's legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type ...
Wildfires Will Cost $1.8B to Extinguish in 2014, U.S. Dept. of Ag
According to a Congressionally-mandated report issued on May 1, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are projected to spend over $470 million more than is available to ...AIG Fined for Covering Canadian Clients With Cuba Ties
American International Group Inc. sold coverage to clients with ties to Cuba, a nation sanctioned by the U.S., when the insurer was owned by American taxpayers after its 2008 bailout. The insurer ...
U.S. Report: Climate Change Here, Deal With It
Climate change is in the here and now, according to a massive report issued on Tuesday. The White House's National Climate Assessment report is part of President Barack Obama's effort to prepare the ...
U.S. at Risk of Severe Weather From Climate, Scientists Say
More than half the U.S. population lives in coastal areas that are "increasingly vulnerable" to the effects of climate change, which will ripple throughout the U.S. economy, a White House advisory ...
Samsung to Pay Apple Roughly $120M for Three Infringed Patents
A U.S. jury on Monday left the total damages Samsung Electronics Co Ltd must pay Apple Inc. unchanged at $119.6 million, after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone ...
Senators to Push U.S. Cybersecurity Legislation
U.S. administration officials, private sector executives and privacy advocates are reviewing a draft of a bill that would encourage sharing of cybersecurity data between the government and companies, ...