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When President Obama took office, he promised to undo eight years of what he called the weakest antitrust enforcement in half a century. A year and a half later, consumer advocates are still waiting for the crackdown.


United States - Barack Obama - President - Google - Law

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has made no secret of his desire to run for mayor of Chicago one day, saying as recently as April that becoming chief executive of his home town had "always been an aspiration."



Rahm Emanuel - Chicago - United States - Illinois - White House Chief of Staff

The last major U.S. factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs is slated to close this month. How the manufacturing jobs in the next lighting technology, compact fluoresecents, ended up overseas.


Light - Business - Innovation - Shopping - Holidays

The Potomac River is cleaner now than it has been in decades, thanks largely to upgrades at Washington's sewage plant - and the proof is on the river bottom, where thickets of underwater grass are replacing mud and murk, according to a new scientific study.


United States - river - Science and Environment - Water Resources - Potomac