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Congressman Barney Frank on Wednesday asked his colleagues to hold a hearing on alleged mortgage abuses at Ally Financial, a day after the attorney general from his home state of Massachusetts requested that lawmakers investigate.

Bishop Eddie Long's announcement of his departure from the New Birth missionary Baptist Church on Sunday has uncertainty for the future of the church, The Associated Press has reported.

In the midst of a legal battle over Alabama's new immigration law, the state's attorney general sent a letter to top Republican lawmakers suggesting ways to shield the law from challenges by altering or deleting controversial provisions.

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ:RIMM) is said to have delayed the launch of its first BlackBerry 10 OS-run London smartphone by at least 3 months.

The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city neighboring Hong Kong, earlier this week rejected a lawsuit by Apple accusing Proview Technology (Shenzhen) of infringing on its iPad trademark.

The controversial porn domain .xxx went on sale Tuesday despite a lawsuit by two adult entertainment industry giants.

AT&T and Sprint Nextel Corp. agreed in separate court filings Tuesday that Sprint's legal case against the $39 billion AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger should begin after the trial with the U.S. Department of Justice is complete, Bloomberg reported.

The woman living in a $1.2 million Lake Washington home in Seattle, Wash., and receiving welfare is being sued alongside her husband by federal authorities for collecting welfare benefits and food stamps while living in the lavish lakefront home.

A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest move in a protracted tug-of-war over the name.

Khloe Kardashian could have another hit on her hands -- but not the kind that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star would hope for.

More than 100,000 .XXX domains will go live at 11 a.m. Tuesday, possibly ushering in a new era for adult content.

Veena Malik's FHM India cover has sparked outrage, with Pakistanis saying it is a shame for all Muslims and her fathering claiming he has disowned her.

Past and present MF Global employees sued ex-CEO Jon Corzine and other executives over alleged misrepresentations they say destroyed the value of the company's stock.

The editor for the FHM India Edition has threatened to release a series of photographs from the photoshoot with model and actress Veena Malik.

Pakistani model and actress Veena Malik is a beautiful woman who has found herself caught in a nude photo scandal with FHM's India Edition. The magazine revealed its December issue on Friday with a picture of the actress on the cover -- completely naked -- with her hands crossed over her chest to cover her breasts. She was wearing an ISI tattoo.

Khloe Kardashian has been sued by a transgender woman who claims Kardashian assaulted her in 2009.

European aerospace company, Airbus SAS has filed a federal suit against Seattle winglet supplier and partner of rival company Boeing.

Toyota Motor Corp has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit brought by vehicle owners in 14 other countries who said their Toyotas lost value because of the Japanese automaker's mishandling of alleged unintended acceleration problems.

Michael Sitrick and Reliance Trust Co. have agreed to settle a lawsuit charging the crisis public relations guru with undervaluing an employee stock option plan (ESOP), TheWrap has learned.

Bank stocks finished up one of the best-performing weeks of the year Friday, as a global coordinated stimulus by the world's top central bankers announced Wednesday injected some badly needed liquidity into the credit markets and signaled a willingness for future intervention if the going gets tougher.

In the wake of a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general, GMAC Mortgage, a subsidiary of Ally Financial, said on Friday that it would stop buying mortgage loans in the state after Dec. 5.