The FTC closed its antitrust investigation of Google without action on whether the company favored its own products in its search results and unfairly harmed rivals.
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Investors are jumping out of mutual funds managed by professional stock pickers and shifting massive amounts of money into lower-cost funds that echo the broader market, new data show.
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Western sanctions against Iran, combined with years of economic mismanagement by the country's government, have hammered Iran's currency and its economy, forcing cutbacks by businesses and families.
On Fridays, to truly defy conformity at some tech outfits, one must not wear jeans or flip-flops.
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U .S. antitrust regulators probing Google's business practices came up virtually empty-handed, preserving the firm's dominant Web-search business and dealing a blow to rivals such as Microsoft.
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Fed officials were divided over how long to continue bond-buying programs to spur the economy, minutes from their latest meeting show.
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Stocks ended lower in the wake of the Fed disclosure, snapping a two-day win streak. The Dow industrials dropped 21.19 points to 13391.36.
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Transocean will pay $1.4 billion to settle all federal criminal and civil claims from the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Boehner was re-elected speaker despite discord. Nine Republicans voted for someone else to lead the House as Boehner continued to struggle to unify his party. The new Congress convened against a backdrop of looming fiscal showdowns over the nation's debt ceiling and across-the-board spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect in March. Three Republicans voted for Cantor as speaker and two backed defeated Florida Congressman West.
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Indian authorities, trying to assuage public outrage, filed formal murder charges against five men alleged to have gang-raped and killed a young woman last month.
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Morsi dispatched top aides to the U.A.E. to quell a diplomatic dispute over the arrests by Emirati authorities of Egyptian citizens accused of being part of an alleged terrorist cell.
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Obama signed a defense-policy bill, drawing complaints from human-rights advocates that he was breaking a promise to close a terrorist-detention system.
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Minutes of the Fed's Dec. 11-12 policy meeting showed officials were divided about when to halt the central bank's bond-buying programs.
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Private-sector jobs in the U.S. increased by 215,000 last month, according to a report calculated by payroll processor ADP and forecasting firm Moody's Analytics.
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The FTC's action against Google is the latest example of how the agency's enforcement has generally been cautious and within the mainstream of antitrust law.
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Offshore driller Transocean will pay $1.4 billion to settle all federal civil and criminal claims relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Homeowners across the coastal South are pushing back against insurers they say are charging too much for hurricane coverage, even as superstorm Sandy's aftermath is costing the industry billions of dollars in the Northeast.
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The nation's largest nurses union said it would team up with a union representing other health-care workers, seeking to make the combined entity the dominant labor group in the fast-growing health-care sector.
They face an all-too-familiar backdrop of looming fiscal showdowns, leaving members to ready themselves for the same kind of divisive battles faced by the last Congress.
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Within hours after President Barack Obama signed the bill averting the fiscal cliff, the Internal Revenue Service issued new guidelines for employers on how much to withhold from workers' paychecks this year.
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Today's U.S. Watch
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President Barack Obama dropped his veto threat and signed a defense-policy bill into law, prompting complaints Thursday from human-rights advocates that he was breaking a promise to close the terrorist-detention system set up by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Indian authorities filed formal murder charges against five men alleged to have gang-raped and killed a student on a bus in the capital in December.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi dispatched top aides to the United Arab Emirates to quell a diplomatic dispute sparked after Emirati authorities said they had arrested Egyptian citizens accused of fomenting terrorism in the oil-rich Gulf nation.
A U.S. drone strike in a Pakistan border region killed the leader of a militant group accused of cooperating with Afghan Taliban fighters in attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, officials said.
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Spain has been quietly tapping the country's richest piggy bank, the Social Security Reserve Fund, as a buyer of last resort for Spanish government bonds, raising questions about the fund's role as guarantor of future pension payouts.
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Unemployment stabilized at low levels in Germany in December and fell sharply in Spain, boosting hopes for a modest euro-zone recovery in 2013.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to French actor Gérard Depardieu, whose bitter fight over taxes with France's government has led him to renounce his citizenship.
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Strains and misunderstandings between the U.S. military and the local population in Okinawa have risen in recent weeks, even as defense officials in Tokyo and Washington pledge closer military ties.
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Google's Eric Schmidt will join an unofficial U.S. delegation to North Korea this month, the highest-profile American business executive to visit the reclusive country in several years.
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Pirate attacks are on the rise off the coast of oil-rich Nigeria. The country boasts some of Africa's most impressive naval assets, but much of it lies in disrepair or disuse.
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South Sudan accused Sudan of attacking its troops along their oil-rich common border ahead of a planned summit between the two countries' presidents, threatening the fragile security situation after a six-month lull in fighting.
A three-week-long hunger strike by a Native American chief in Canada over alleged abuses of land rights and other grievances is stoking wider protests that are also spilling over into the U.S.
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Today's World Watch
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