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Ex-JPMorgan Execs Pressed About $6B Trading Loss At Senate Hearing
Two former high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase faced tough questions from U.S. senators Friday about why the bank played down risks and hid losses from regulators when it was losing billions of ...
Lawsuit Tests Bloggers’ Freedom Of Speech Rights
A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal court of appeals to throw out a defamation case brought against him by former government employee Shirley Sherrod, ...
Univ. of Tenn. Proposes Fracking On Its Own Land To Fund Research
The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the environmental impact of ...BP Sues To Block Gulf Spill Settlement Payouts, Alleges Administrator ‘Rewriting’ Deal
On Friday, BP sued to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The ...
New Zealand Suffering Worst Drought In 30 Years
Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island. He had to thin ...
Scientists Stumped On Question Of Whether Global Warming Means More Twisters
With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped. These unpredictable, sometimes deadly ...Judge Rules Secret FBI Letters To Banks, Other Cos. Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that the FBI's practice of issuing so-called national security letters to banks, phone companies and other businesses is unconstitutional, saying the secretive demands for ...Global Warming May Have Fueled Somali Drought: Scientists
Global warming may have contributed to low rain levels in Somalia in 2011 where tens of thousands died in a famine, research by British climate scientists suggests. Scientists with Britain's weather ...