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Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer company, will phase out an older Intel chip on high-end servers in favor of a newer one. Besides offering more power, another goal could be to battle rival Oracle.

This year's Thanksgiving travel forecast: stormy weather!

The Department of Homeland Security announced last week a sweeping review of deportation cases before immigration courts and the establishment of a nationwide retraining program for enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys. Both are intended to focus deportations on immigrants who have committed serious crimes or who pose a threat to public safety, rather than a broad category of noncriminal immigrants.

Megyn Kelly is being petitioned on the internet to eat or drink pepper spray on national TV following her controversial characterization of the crowd control mechanism as a food product.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Yahoo, ASML Holding, Brigham Exploration, and First Solar. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diamond Foods, Rambus, Netflix, Groupon, Central European Distribution, and Micron Technology.

The failure of the U.S. Congressional Super Committee to reach a deal on reducing the budget deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years implies that uncertainty over defense spending is set to continue in to 2012.

In what appears to be the latest in a spate of illegal passageways found on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days, border police in Nogales, Arizona, uncovered yet another drug smuggling tunnel.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: TiVo, Novellus Systems, Casual Male Retail Group, Canadian Solar, and Applied Materials. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diamond Foods, Netlist, Gulfport Energy, Sangamo Biosciences, and Expedia.

The hacker collective Anonymous has posted personal data, including the home address and phone number, of one of the University of California, Davis, police officers, who was suspended for Friday's pepper spraying of students.

Linda P.B. Katehi, the University of California, Davis, chancellor, defended herself Tuesday from criticism over the police pepper spraying of peaceful protestors by saying the university police disobeyed her orders.

Singapore Press Holdings , which has a near monopoly of newspaper publishing in the city-state, said on Wednesday it filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo Inc, alleging the internet giant reproduced news from its newspapers without permission.

Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly discussed the use of pepper spray by police at the Occupy Wall Street protest this weekend at the University of California Davis on The O'Reilly Factor late Monday. Kelly's comment that pepper spray is little more than a food product has sparked outrage from protestors and commentators online. It has also led to the creation of an entirely new meme using the structure of her sentence followed by essentially on Reddit and QuickMeme.

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has reached a settlement with former Countrywide Financial Corp institutional investors who decided not to join a $624 million class-action case that won court approval in February.

Hewlett Packard's new Chief Executive, Meg Whitman, passed her first test with investors, calming nerves and assuring Wall Street that the technology giant will be disciplined with its investments and focused on core operational improvements.

The UC Davis pepper spray incident has sparked national outrage and resulted in consequences for the university police officers and administrators responsible.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has appointed City Hall veteran Anne Campbell Washington as her chief of staff to placate her critics.

Out of tragedy comes hope. The Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act of 2011, or Kate's Law, offers better protections for Peace Corps volunteers as they help out abroad.

Think before you say next time Double Bag It during shopping - for it could cost you more than what you think. If San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have its way, a legislation would soon be enforced that would expand the city's restriction on checkout bags to include all retail stores and restaurants and customers would have to pay for each bag the business establishment provides.

Hewlett-Packard is trying to enlist European antitrust authorities to investigate whether Oracle improperly leveraged its strength in software to freeze HP out of certain parts of the hardware market, attorneys for both companies said in court.

In response to Lt. Pike's pepper spray attack on UC Davis students, international hackers Anonymous has posted a video threatening they will make you [Pike] squeal and releasing his personal information online. Some have applauded Anonymous' actions (watch video here) as vigilante justice, but others feel the attack crosses a line. YouTube has since removed the video, labeling it as hate speech.

People who eat canned versus homemade soup have high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), according to research released Tuesday about the controversial plastic-hardener linked to developmental disruptions in children along with cancer, diabetes and heart disease in adults.