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After eight years of light antitrust scrutiny under a Republican White House, the technology and telecommunications industries are bracing for stepped up oversight by the Obama administration's Justice Department. Christine Varney, the head of the department's...
Tags: IBM Corp., power, US Justice Department, mainframe computers, used justice, Monsanto Co., US Department of Justice, antitrust investigating
In a major setback to the environment last night, the Laredo TX city council voted to allow the Border Patrol to aerially spray the US-Mexico border with the toxic herbicide Imazapyr, a substance which begins to kill all vegetation immediately...
Tags: environment, US Border Patrol, US-Mexico border, Attorney General Eric Holder, Imazapyr, carrizo, Rio Grande River, Rio Grande International Study Center, US Department of Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency, Jay J. Johnson-Castro Sr., activist
US Attorney General Eric Holder: "These cartels are not just operating in Mexico. Their reach stretches far and wide. We simply cannot afford to let down our guard. These cartels will be destroyed." With that statement, Holder concluded...
Tags: Michele Leonhart, Operation Xcellerator, Sinaloa drug cartel, Drug Enforcement Administration, US Department of Justice, Eric Holder
The move into a phase II investigation rather than clearance being given at the end of the much shorter phase I investigation has been expected by BHP. Its managing director, Marius Kloppers, told investors recently that that given the complexity of the...
Tags: bhp, BHP Billiton Ltd., Rio Tinto, early termination, waiting period, US Department of Justice, US Federal Trade Commission, mining company, largest mining, rival rio