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In Iowa, Obama to tout election-year energy plan
President Barack Obama is returning to Iowa, seeking support for an election-year agenda to spur renewable energy along with a more immediate prize: ...
World stocks waver as Europe holds another summit
World stock markets wavered Thursday as the lack of a breakthrough in Europe's attempts to shake off its debt crisis kept sentiment gloomy.
A smoke-free country? New Zealand taxes aim for it
There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country? New Zealand's government on Thursday squeezed ...
EU leaders support growth, give few concrete plans
European Union leaders concluded their latest summit early Thursday with few concrete steps to fix the continent's festering financial crisis even as ...
Facebook, JPMorgan gaffs erode faith in Wall St.
Wall Street appears bent on convincing Main Street that the game is rigged. Investor anger is mounting over the initial public offering of Facebook ...
New Zealand says 'zero' budget will bring surplus
New Zealand's center-right government unveiled a relatively austere budget Thursday, saying it will tackle rising debt and return the country's books ...
California nuke trouble could prompt rule review
The saga of troubled tubing at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant could prompt a review of federal rules under which equipment is routinely ...
Lawsuit challenges Nebraska's pipeline review law
Opponents of a proposed pipeline designed to carry crude oil from Canada under the Great Plains filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging Nebraska's new ...
Late rally erases steep losses on Wall Street
A big final-hour comeback pulled the Dow Jones industrial average nearly back to where it started Wednesday. The Dow was down as much as 191 points ...
States looking to new tolls to pay for highways
Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay. With Congress ...
Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain
Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of ...
Commercial space race gets crowded behind SpaceX
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space ...
Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy
Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring.
CONCACAF tries to oust Chuck Blazer from FIFA
A list of alleged financial mismanagement allegations against former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 soccer nations ...
Europe's leaders seek ways to boost growth
The leaders of the 27 countries that make up the European Union will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to try and find a way to keep the debt crisis in ...
Europe's leaders to tackle growth at summit
The leaders of the 27 countries that make up the European Union are to meet in Brussels on Wednesday to try and find a way to keep the debt crisis in ...
Germany borrows at rock-bottom costs
Germany borrowed at almost no cost Wednesday when it sold €5 billion in two-year treasury notes at a rock-bottom interest rate. The average interest ...
Sharp drop in UK retail sales boosts stimulus case
Retail sales fell sharply in Britain during the wettest April in a century, official data showed Wednesday, a piece of bad economic news which ...
Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota
North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a ...
EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks
A European envoy held out a possible compromise in a fight with China over carbon emissions charges on airlines, saying Wednesday that Europe might ...
Regulators probe bank's role in Facebook IPO
Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, ...
US goes after ex-Mexican governor's Texas property
The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real ...
Biden dismisses Romney's experience in business
The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice President Joe Biden ...