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The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, striking at the heart of its main search business.

Google said that the Texas attorney general is conducting an antitrust review on the fairness of Google’s search results.

The president did not offer specifics, though he has said repeatedly that he wants to extend middle class tax cuts and promote new investment in clean energy.

How various health-care costs are allotted to which categories is a subject of fierce debate with the sector, and the stakes are high for the public, an economist writes.

Employers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.

The acquisition of Burger King Holdings by a Brazilian-backed investment firm may herald the emergence of a new global business player.

The explosion touched off flurries of conflicting reports about sightings of oil slicks in the water.

The annual Kaiser survey of employer health benefits shows employers managed to keep costs down, but employees’ premiums went up.

Even with the decline, claims are still at much higher levels than they would be in a healthy economy.

Burger King Holdings is in advanced talks to sell itself to 3G Capital, a Brazilian investment firm.

A crucial manufacturing gauge in the United States unexpectedly rose in August and indicators showed strong growth in China and Australia.

Over the last two decades, the number of young children of foreign-born parents has doubled.

A new policy in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is an attempt to cool the cozy relationship between government and the oil companies.

Job growth is increasingly polarized between high-paid occupations demanding education and training and low-wage, service-type jobs.

Republicans and President Obama are open to tax cuts. The question is what kind can put people back to work.

Supporters in the financial industry say they expected more regulation and higher taxes, but they did not realize that they would be painted as villains.