Friday, February 18, 2011Honda is recalling nearly 700,000 Fit, Freed and City compact cars around the world for a defective spring part that may cause the engine to stall. No accidents have been reported related to the problem, but at least 72 complaints were filed in Japan, and 29 abroad, Honda Motor Co. READ MORE >>
Friday, February 18, 2011The U.S. Senate aims to begin consideration next month of a bipartisan bill to revamp the U.S. patent system and reduce the likelihood of what critics see as excessive damage awards, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday. Reid said he plans to bring the bill to the Senate floor after lawmakers return from a week-long recess set to start on Friday. READ MORE >>
Tuesday, February 15, 2011On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay out of their way. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening.
The House's principal investigative panel, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, t... READ MORE >>
Thursday, February 10, 2011A class-action lawsuit accuses the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys and team owner Jerry Jones of deceiving hundreds of fans who bought Super Bowl tickets and had no seats, or who felt the seats were inadequate. The federal lawsuit, filed Feb. 8 in Dallas, alleges breach of contract, fraud and deceptive sales practices. READ MORE >>
Thursday, February 10, 2011A U.S. government investigation showed no link between electronic throttles and unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, a victory for the world's top automaker battered by recalls over runaway vehicles. READ MORE >>
Thursday, February 3, 2011 President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a Republican bid Wednesday to repeal his healthcare overhaul, likely leaving the fate of the year-old law up to the federal courts. READ MORE >>
Thursday, February 3, 2011Senior U.S. lawmakers are once again planning to reform the patent system to try to eliminate huge damage awards, an issue ripe for legislation after recent court decisions challenged calculation methods. Patent reform, in one form or another, has been pushed in Congress for several years. READ MORE >>
Tuesday, February 1, 2011A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so-called individual mandate ... READ MORE >>
Tuesday, February 1, 2011As a monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the nation Tuesday, those in its frigid and dangerous path could only hope it wouldn't live up to the hype. The storm threatened to leave up to a third of the nation covered in a hodge-podge of brutal winter weather. READ MORE >>
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