September 8, 2011

A provision in a bill before the Senate could get an influential law firm off the hook for a possible $214 million malpractice payment.

After months of war, Libyans have set aside their grievances against functionaries of the Qaddafi government who now work for the rebel government.

The debate was the first time the Republican contenders shared a stage since Gov. Rick Perry opened his campaign in August.

As the rest of the Internet moved on to social networks and mobile devices, Yahoo failed to keep up.

With the words “I’ve just been fired,” Yahoo’s chief executive, Carol A. Bartz, did something that dismissed managers almost never do.

If history is a guide, the odds that the American economy is falling into a double-dip recession may have reached 50 percent.

Top executives of the country’s largest bank will gather to review recommendations of a 44-member internal team that has been preparing restructuring plans since March.

A chronicle of the civil and military aviation response to the hijackings was prepared by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, but never completed or released.

The terrorist attacks scythed through generations of firefighters and Wall Street traders in the largely Irish-Catholic neighborhoods on the Rockaway peninsula. Also, the neighborhood’s Muslim bagel man; and the connection between the 9/11 families and wounded American soldiers.

The new species, Australopithecus sediba, possesses novel combinations of apelike and humanlike features in the hand, foot and pelvis.

Numerous television documentaries address the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks; most are well made and well intended, but many are as much a reflection of the channel showing them as they are a prism on the anniversary.

Google disclosed that it continuously uses enough electricity to power 200,000 homes, but it says that in doing so, it also makes the planet greener.