A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month.

Crude oil fell to a six-month low in New York and gasoline tumbled amid signs that refineries along the Gulf of Mexico coast will soon resume operations after escaping major damage from Hurricane Ike.

The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.

On several occasions recently Continental Airlines planes have taken off in the wrong direction at Newark Liberty International Airport, prompting harsh words from the air traffic controllers' union.

EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.

The consumer watchdog has defended the federal government's planned fuel price monitoring scheme, saying it will give motorists a better chance to save money on their petrol.

Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Bros. Co.'s supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida enabled the massive data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards, the company said Friday

AT&T's removal of Eddie Vedder's anti-Bush sentiments from a webcast was not an isolated incident, according to a response issued by the company to Wired News.

Growing numbers of the nation's poorest households are using more than half their earnings for rent while waiting years for federal housing assistance that may never come.

American Home representatives have declined repeated requests for interviews or additional information during the past month. Shares closed yesterday at $17.27 in New York Stock Exchange trading - the lowest since 2001, when AHM was much smaller.