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Business Highlights 05/16/2014 06:08pm • The Associated Press ___GM is fined $35 million over deadly defectWASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal safety regulators slapped General Motors with a record $35 million fine Friday for taking more than a decade to disclose an ignition-switch defect in millions of cars that has been linked to at least 13 dea Business Highlights 05/16/2014 06:08pm • The Associated Press ___GM is fined $35 million over deadly defectWASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal safety regulators slapped General Motors with a record $35 million fine Friday for taking more than a decade to disclose an ignition-switch defect in millions of cars that has been linked to at least 13 dea Business Highlights 05/16/2014 06:08pm • The Associated Press ___GM is fined $35 million over deadly defectWASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal safety regulators slapped General Motors with a record $35 million fine Friday for taking more than a decade to disclose an ignition-switch defect in millions of cars that has been linked to at least 13 dea German official mulls breaking up Google 05/16/2014 03:00pm • FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A senior German official has warned that Google may have such a dominant market position that a breakup of the company "must be seriously considered."Such a move -- which would be difficult to enforce because Google is based in the United States -- could Smithsonian to fly drones for 'future' festival 05/15/2014 05:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is getting some competition from the Smithsonian Institution in testing personal delivery drones for the future.Smithsonian magazine is hosting its second "The Future is Here" festival this weekend and plans to test fly drones and a human jetpack near European court: Google must yield on personal info 05/15/2014 01:20pm • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Europe's highest court Tuesday gave people the means to scrub their reputations online, issuing a landmark ruling that experts say could force Google and other search engines to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering e Affordable Housing Planned on Four County-Owned Sites 05/14/2014 11:15am • Four Arlington County-owned sites are already in the planning stages to be developed into affordable housing. The sites — Rosslyn Highlands Park/Fire Station 10 (1559 Wilson Blvd); Courthouse Square and Plaza; land adjacent to Lee Gardens at the intersection of Fairfax Drive and Arlington Blvd European court ruling redefines 'Googling' people 05/14/2014 11:10am • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A European court decision will require Google to sanitize its Internet search results to protect people who can demonstrate the information unfairly tarnishes their reputation.The landmark ruling empowers the roughly 500 million people living in 28 Eu A look at the European Court ruling on Google 05/14/2014 08:20am • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A European court ruled Tuesday that Google must respond when users complain that searches on their names are turning up personal information they don't want to see available to anyone and everyone.Here are a few questions and answers about the decisio Apple CEO dares to be different from Steve Jobs 05/14/2014 06:32am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- "Think different" became Apple's creed during the late Steve Jobs' reign as CEO. Now, chief executive Tim Cook is embracing the idea while making decisions that would have seemed crazy to his fabled predecessor.Apple's pending purchase of he 10 things to know for Wednesday 10 things to know for Wednesday 05/14/2014 03:40am • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. MINE COLLAPSE KILLS SCORES IN TURKEY An explosion and fire at a mine in western Turkey kills at least 166 people and traps hundreds more underground. 2. A POS ‘Micro-Unit’ Apartments Proposed for Crystal City 05/13/2014 11:00am • One of the region’s first “micro-unit” apartment buildings is coming to Crystal City. A new apartment concept is planned for a vacant Crystal City office building, one that would bring the office trend of co-working spaces to the residential real estate market. The project Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case 05/13/2014 08:48am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department does not have to turn over information on cases involving warrantless cellphone tracking if the cases ended without a defendant's conviction, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday in upholding privacy protections for peopl Wall Street risk-takers...Retail sales, business inventories 05/13/2014 07:41am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street investors have regained their appetite for riskier stocks. Among the big gainers Monday were Twitter and Facebook, which had plunged in March and April. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 18.17 points to finish at an all-time high. The Dow also broke a record, gaining Organizations aim to train immigrant entrepreneurs 05/13/2014 02:16am • GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After immigrating to Oregon from the Mexican state of Oaxaca more than two decades ago, Paula Asuncion worked on farms and in minimum wage jobs at fast-food restaurants -- a widow struggling to feed six children, sharing cramped apartments with
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