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Some of the nation?s biggest banks have cut off students at community colleges and other less competitive schools.

The lawsuit against Yahoo?s board over its rebuff of Microsoft?s $47.5 billion buyout bid was made public by a judge who said that Yahoo had not shown good reason to keep it confidential.

For eight months, David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager, has pilloried the venerable Lehman Brothers in an effort to drive down the bank?s stock price, which he is betting against.

Jane Friedman is the second high-profile publishing executive to leave the top slot in the last month.

The default rate is rising even among homeowners with good credit who do not hold risky subprime loans.

Hopes that the U.S. might skirt a recession sank in the face of indications that the economy is gripped by a slowdown and pressured by record fuel prices.

Whatever the reason, volunteering is a real boon to the organizations that receive that labor free.

Leading US stock market indexes suffer massive falls as the price of oil soars to yet another record.

The company announced a new version of the iPhone with lots of new programs.

The nation?s airlines are scrutinizing every step of their operations, searching for new ways they can cut their fuel bills.

Susan Lyne, who served as president and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for four years, will be succeeded by Robin Marino and Wenda Harris Millard.

The European Union accused United States producers of biodiesel fuel of benefiting from subsidies that threaten to put European producers out of business.

Some of the biggest technology companies have formed a group to fight information overload.

A strike by fuel tanker drivers over pay starts to hit the supply of petrol and diesel at petrol stations in parts of Britain.

The merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio could proceed in exchange for concessions.

The law firm known as Milberg, once a scourge of corporate America, agreed to the settlement to avoid a criminal trial, ending a seven-year investigation.

Inflation accelerated to the highest level in more than 10 years in May, further tying the hands of British policy makers grappling with a slowing economy.

As President Bush makes a push for offshore energy drilling, the question is whether Americans are feeling enough pain at the pump to force their leaders to go along.

Carl C. Icahn has lost his campaign to elect a slate of dissident nominees to Biogen Idec?s board.

Michael Cohl, chairman of Live Nation, the world?s largest concert promoter, stepped down Friday after a report of a strategy dispute with the chief executive, Michael Rapino.

The F.C.C. has voted to stop Verizon from trying to talk its customers out of switching to another telephone provider while they wait for their phone numbers to be transferred.

The ethanol industry has provided some top advisers to Senator Barack Obama, who has delivered ringing endorsements of ethanol as an alternative fuel.

Don Imus waded into racially treacherous waters again on his new radio program in a brief exchange about a suspended professional football player, Adam Jones.

The state says the lender defrauded borrowers by selling mortgages that soon went into foreclosure.

Oracle sounded a warning bell that growth was likely to slow in the first quarter as the company absorbed its latest major acquisition, BEA Systems.

The top securities regulator in Massachusetts has sued UBS, saying that the firm misled clients when it sold them auction-rate securities.

Not a single company backed by venture capitalists has gone public this quarter, a result of the weaknesses in the financial markets.

For car-loving American teenagers, rising gas prices are making this the summer the cruising died.

Google will syndicate a new animation series using its AdSense advertising system to Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the show?s target audience.