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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a complaint Wednesday opposing AT&T's $39 billion merger with T-Mobile, citing antitrust concerns and saying that the deal would substantially lessen the competition.

A general counsel at AT&T said the company will fight an antitrust lawsuit suit the Department of Justice filed on Wednesday. Wayne Watts, who serves as both senior executive vice president and general counsel for AT&T, said the lawsuit from the Justice Department has surprised and disappointed him, especially in light of the fact that the government agency gave no indication that it was planning to take such actions.

The CWA cited that the proposed merger could create up to 96,000 “quality” jobs and that blocking the deal would be the wrong policy given the backdrop of a weakening U.S. economy and high joblessness.

The Justice Department said its move is to ensure that competition remains and that everyone to include consumers, businesses and the government continues to get high quality, competitively priced mobile wireless products and services.

The government has decided to block the AT&T-T-Mobile merger, citing antitrust issues.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Re-enters positive territory, although the Department of Justice's suit against AT&T could derail those gains.

Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), lost his job amid a Congressional probe over a troubled gun-trafficking operation.

The Obama Administration on Tuesday replaced two senior officials who helped to oversee a troubled federal operation that targeted gun trafficking.

The White House replaced the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney for Arizona on Tuesday in the latest casualties over a botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

Arizona filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a U.S. federal voting rights law governing how the state conducts its elections.

Google has paid the DOJ $500 million for allowing Canadian pharmacies to place advertisements on its Adwords program, thus helping them get revenue from the illegal transfer of drugs to the U.S.

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.