Google's high-stakes hearings begin as DOJ pushes to break up tech giant's monopoly

It will be the biggest antitrust case in the U.S. since the Justice Department sued Microsoft in the late 1990s. Google will confront an existential threat Monday as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into a ruthless monopoly.The drama will unfold in a Washington courtroom during the next three weeks during hearings that will determine how the company should be penalized for operating an illegal monopoly in search. The proc...