WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities are monitoring hundreds of Muslim and Arab small businesses, primarily convenience stores across the United States, looking for possible links between criminal scams and funding for militant groups overseas, The Washington Post reports.

More than 500 businesses are targeted in a probe of petty scams that authorities believe are generating tens of millions of dollars a year for terrorist organizations, the report said, citing federal officials.

STANFORD, Calif. – A new report from the Stanford Business School concludes that oil companies responded as quickly and logistically as possible to correct the gasoline price hike in the Midwest during the spring of 2000.

The study was conducted by Jeremy Bulow, the Richard A. Stepp professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, along with Jeffrey H. Fischer, Jay S. Creswell Jr. and Christopher T. Taylor, economist colleagues at the FTC.