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FILE – The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company’s building in New York on Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Judge hears closing arguments on whether Google’s advertising tech constitutes a monopoly

November 25, 2024 at 3:25 p.m.

Google, already facing a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine, is fighting to beat back another attack by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging monopolistic conduct,...

FILE – Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in New York. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

August 5, 2024 at 8:32 p.m.

A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the...

Curator Lily Carhart shows a pipette they used to extract liquid from a few dozen 18th-century glass bottles that contained fruit after they were unearthed from the cellar of George Washington’s residence in Mount Vernon, Va., Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren)

No lie: Perfectly preserved centuries-old cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon

June 17, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.

George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his...

People arrive at the recently opened Google building in New York, Feb. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly

May 3, 2024 at 12:33 p.m.

The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Judge declines motion to dismiss drug charge against Rose McGowan

December 17, 2018 at 4:24 p.m.

A judge on Monday refused to dismiss a drug-possession charge against actress Rose McGowan after prosecutors said they have additional evidence to bring forward. McGowan's lawyers have suggested the drugs...

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