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Federal regulators have approved the merger of the XM and Sirius satellite radio services.
The Supreme Court has said it will consider the federal government’s regulations of profanity and indecency on the airwaves
A Philadelphia government panel has ruled a store owner did not illegally discriminate with a sign advising customers to speak English.
Truckers are threatening a strike-against the federal gas taxes that artificially drive up the cost of fuel.
Reuters reports on the latest from Britain’s nationally-run health care system: “Nearly half of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) maternity units had to turn away women in labor last year because they were full.”
Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been charged with eight criminal offenses in an obstruction-of-justice case.