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Companies like Apple Inc. and Google Inc. should be required to build surveillance capabilities into their products to help law enforcement with their probes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Janet Yellen thrust the Federal Reserve into the debate on inequality in America, saying she’s “greatly” concerned by the most sustained rise in U.S. wealth and income inequality since the 19th century.

Three years later, with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in effect, none of the most dire predictions has come to pass.

Former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler has emerged as President Barack Obama’s preferred candidate as the next attorney general, though he hasn’t decided on a nominee and is still weighing other choices, people familiar with the deliberations said.

The trial over the American International Group Inc. bailout shifts this week from the architects of the 2008 rescue, who spent days testifying as to why they imposed the terms they did on the ailing insurer, to the executives who accepted their demands.

Clashes over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that were confined to a hardscrabble stretch of suburban Ferguson are enveloping the St. Louis area, much of which had watched events unfold safely on the television screen.

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The hackers who raided the data banks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. used computers now linked to possible attacks on at least 13 more financial companies, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Gay-marriage opponents once held sway with constitutional provisions or laws in 31 U.S. states that banned same-sex unions. After the Supreme Court reduced that number by a third Monday, they say their resolve is only deepened.

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On Wednesday, the top court will hear arguments related to a suit brought by an Amazon worker seeking compensation for his time in the security lines.

You don’t need to go to law school to know that ignorance of the law is no excuse –for you. But what about the cops? This morally significant question opened the U.S. Supreme Court term Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide an issue dear to the heart of every lawyer who represents bankrupt companies: Can attorneys be paid for successfully defending their own fee requests?

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