The suit is the latest in a series of cases filed by businesses arguing that Google’s advertising system violates trademark laws.

A severely brain-injured man who has been unable to communicate or eat by mouth for 6 years now performs both tasks daily, after surgeons used deep brain stimulation (DBS) in an investigational study. The man's improvements in communication, complex movement and eating are unique, and the technique has never been applied to this patient population before.

A secret espionage court told the government Friday it is considering making public its rulings on the administration's formerly secret, warrantless-wiretap program. The intelligence court's unprecedented consideration of an ACLU petition to disclose those records marks the latest strange turn in the secret-spying saga.