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Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

Anschutz Entertainment Group, a behemoth in the world of sports and entertainment events and venues, has officially entered competition with Live Nation’s Ticketmaster in the ticketing market.

New York and New Jersey politicians are demanding that any new government in Tripoli extradite to the United States a Libyan official convicted in Britain for the December 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner.

U.S. authorities will review the cases of 300,000 illegal immigrants slated for deportation to make sure they are not focusing on deporting people who are low priorities for deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday.

The Pakistani government has formally protested Washington's move to arrest a man accused of spying to influence U.S. policy on Kashmir.

Project Delirium, a 20-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation, which targeted the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, has been successful in arresting approximately 1,985 individuals on narcotics-related charges, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced today.

The FBI has arrested 16 alleged members of the notorious hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday morning in a nationwide takedown of the infamous hacking group. The arrests were reportedly took place in states including Florida, New Jersey and California.

The three-year old revelations of a former executive of Fox News, a New York-based subsidiary of News Corp., suddenly take on a new light.

The three-year old revelations of a former executive of Fox News, a New York-based subsidiary of News Corp., suddenly take on a new light.

In an allegedly unholy coalition, Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion have joined hands to demote Android's position in the smartphone market. Six of Google's rivals tied up recently to prevent Google from buying a critical trove of telephony patents, at Nortel's wireless technology patents' auction, with judges in the United States and Canada approving the $4.5 billion transaction.

The pressure to end 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' continues.

The Federal Trade Commission has finally got Google chairman Eric Schmidt to testify in September in a hearing that will address fundamental questions of business operations (of Google) rather than merely legal issues. The federal regulators will investigate into the allegations that the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising.

Consumer Watchdog on Friday said the White House's close relationship with the Google is inappropriate, as the Internet search company is currently under review by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice, a report said on Friday.

Apple on Friday has received an approval to bid on a group of wireless technology patents from bankrupt Canadian company Nortel.

In an effort to compensate distraught families, the Canadian government has paid out over $1 million to Afghan civilians. Will the US follow suit?

MTV said that they would not renew Skins for a second season as the show has came under criticism for its racy teenage depictions.

Poker star Phil Ivey is skipping the World Series of Poker (WSOP). That's like Michael Jordan skipping the NBA playoffs, Tiger Woods skipping the PGA TOUR, and Roger Federer skipping the French Open.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee said they were skeptical that AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile would benefit consumers, and that they feared it would mean higher prices for wireless service.

Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is likely to face an indictment for using campaign donations to conceal an extra-marital affair and love child, ABC News reported on late Tuesday.

A report says if the deal with T-Mobile fails, AT&T will owe Deutsche Telekom $6 billion.

Lakeland-based Francois Piedrahas been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distribution and possession of child pornography, followed by a life term of supervised release.

Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.

David Bart Goldstein, a Baltimore lawyer, has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.

The Justice Department has announced that Johnny Mathis, 47, of Lecompte, La., pleaded guilty to two federal crimes for shooting at the home of three Hispanic men living across the street from him because of the victims' race and national origin.

Alchico Grant and Melinda Clayton were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on a variety of charges stemming from an identity theft and tax fraud scheme, the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced.

A former U.S. probation officer, Mark John Walker, 52, of Eugene, Ore., has pleaded guilty to charges related to his engaging in sexual contact or aggravated sexual abuse with female offenders who were under his direct supervision as a federal probation officer from 2006 to 2009. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2011 before Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, who is a visiting judge from Alaska.

U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter have sentenced Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and Joshua James Moro, 23 pursuant to their January 2011 guilty pleas to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an interracial couple by burning a cross near their home in Athens, La., in October 2008.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Horizon Lines, Eastman Chemical, Netsuite, MEMC Electronic Materials, Leggett & Platt, Suntech Power Holdings, Yingli Green Energy Holding, Renesola, LDK Solar Co and Curtiss-Wright Corp.

Three men running technology vendor businesses were indicted last week for selling millions of dollars worth of laptops to Iran.