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The traditional way to celebrate the derby is with authentic Kentucky mint juleps. Start with excellent bourbon. “My great-great-grandaddy made a pretty good bourbon back around 1850, using a high-rye recipe that we based Bulleit Bourbon on,” says Bulleit. “We age it about seven years, like any good bourbon should …

LONDON – Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL) is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store, a judge ruled Monday, rejecting a suit filed by Apple Corps Ltd., the guardian of The Beatles’ commercial interests. Apple Corps contended that the computer company had broken a 1991 agreement in which …

WASHINGTON – Demonstrators would be barred from disrupting military funerals at national cemeteries under legislation approved by Congress and sent to the White House Wednesday The measure, passed by voice vote in the House hours after the Senate passed an amended version, specifically targets a Kansas church group that has …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are JDA Software Group Inc., McAfee Inc. and Celgene Corp. Watch list Celgene (CELG) said the Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to its supplemental new drug application for Thalomid in …

DENVER – Four alleged environmental extremists have been indicted in a 1998 firebombing at the Vail ski resort that caused $12 million in damage — one of the most devastating ecoterrorism attacks in U.S. history. All four defendants had been named in an earlier indictment in Oregon charging them with …

LONDON – Prime Minister Tony Blair vainly tried to change the subject from his political fate Wednesday as the leader of the British opposition urged him to “go, and go soon.” Conservative leader David Cameron, whose party was energized by thrashing the governing Labour Party in local elections last week, …

WASHINGTON – Dear friend: Lighten up on protesters. That’s the Bush administration’s public advice to Egypt, one of its closest friends in the Arab world. That sentiment was expressed Thursday by the State Department spokesman after thousands of riot police broke up pro-reform protests in Cairo and roughed up demonstrators. …

Although designed to target fraud at big corporations, strict accounting rules under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are imposing disproportionately higher costs on smaller firms, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW Small Business page. In a separate report by the RAND …

TOKYO – A mountaineering company said a 70-year-old Japanese man on Wednesday became the oldest person to scale Mount Everest. However, Guinness World Records said it couldn’t immediately confirm the claim. Takao Arayama, age 70 years, 7 months and 13 days, was the oldest person ever to scale the mountain’s …

WASHINGTON – Natural allies in the music industry — record labels and a leading satellite-radio service — are on opposing sides in a federal lawsuit over how consumers may legally record songs using next-generation radio devices. The recording industry accuses XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) of “massive wholesale infringement” because of …