Federal authorities Thursday indicted two firms and shut down one of the Web’s most popular sites for sharing illegally pirated material, triggering a quick response from hackers who claimed credit for taking down the Web sites of the Justice Department, Recording Industry Association of America and other media companies in retaliation. Read full article > >

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Federal indictment claims popular Web site Megaupload.com shared pirated material

Wikipedia to shut down for 24 hours.

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Websites Go Dark to Protest Piracy Bills

Wikipedia to shut down for 24 hours.

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Websites Protest Piracy Bills

Labour leader Ed Miliband calls on the government to take action to shut down UK tax havens, starting with the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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Labour call for war on tax havens

Washington and Lee University will hold classes Monday over the objections of David Knoespel and some of his law school classmates, who unsuccessfully petitioned their institution to shut down for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Read full article > >

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More than 2,000 web shops selling fake or non-existent goods to unsuspecting shoppers are shut down by police.

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Crackdown on fake shopping sites

A widespread spam attack on Facebook has caused violent and pornographic images to be posted on some users’ profile pages, representing one of the worst security breaches in the young Web site’s history and raising concerns about its vulnerability to hackers. The company, which acknowledged the problem Monday, said it was working to shut down the accounts responsible for the attack. Read full article > >

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Antiabortion activists who have sought for months to shut down a Germantown clinic picketed its landlord outside a Montgomery County middle school where his daughter is a student, school and police officials said Monday. A small group of protesters stood outside Robert Frost Middle School in Rockville on Thursday, holding signs and a banner, during back-to-school night, officials said. Read full article > >

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Anti-abortion protesters target clinic’s landlord outside child’s Md. school

The leadership of the financially struggling American Folk Art Museum are considering whether to shut down the museum and donate its collections to another institution.

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Disney’s much-anticipated big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp has been shut down, according to industry reports.

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A gang that made more than $72m (£45m) peddling fake security software has been shut down in a series of raids.

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FBI targets ‘scareware’ sellers

Two of 21st-century America’s favorite gadgets — the smartphone and the GPS device — are on a collision course, according to a report delivered Friday to the Federal Aviation Administration . The report says deployment of a massive new network of towers and satellites to expand wireless communication may effectively shut down Global Positioning System devices that are at the core of a multibillion-dollar plan to revolutionize aviation . They also may affect some GPS units used by drivers, bicyclists and boaters. Read full article > >

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LightSquared wireless Internet plan concerns officials pushing GPS for aviation

One image perfectly captured the absurd, irrational and wholly unnecessary confrontation over whether to shut down the federal government on the basis of differences over a small part of the budget.

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The high cost of hating government

China’s quality inspection agency has shut down nearly half of the nation’s dairy producers for failing to pass inspection tests and is forcing them to clean up their production policies, according to reports from Beijing. Highly toxic and poisonous…

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China’s Toxic Dairy Industry

If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shut down, interest rates would rise for most borrowers, but urban and rural residents could see sharper increases than customers in the suburbs.

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Without Loan Giants, 30-Year Mortgage May Fade Away