German antitrust probe into Amazon pricing policy
Online retailer Amazon may have broken antitrust laws in Germany by banning third-party traders from selling their products cheaper elsewhere, ...
DiCaprio calls for ivory trade ban in Thailand
Leonardo DiCaprio wants Thailand to ban all ivory trade in the country as part of a global campaign to tackle illegal wildlife crimes. World Wildlife ...
Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year
Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite ...
Strike, protests hit Egypt's Port Said for 3rd day
A third day of protests and strikes brought the restive city of Port Said to a halt on Tuesday, as demonstrators demanded security officials be held ...
EU lawmakers seek to beef up cap-and-trade system
European lawmakers are proposing to tighten the bloc's cap-and-trade system to make carbon dioxide pollution more expensive. The European Parliament's ...
High court rules against Georgia hospital merger
The Supreme Court has dealt a setback to a deal between two private companies that left one as the owner of the only two hospitals in a southwestern ...
New Zealand plans logo-free cigarette packs
Strict against smoking already, New Zealand plans to make tobacco companies remove their logos from cigarette packs but will wait until a challenge ...
Nebraska Sen. Johanns says he won't seek 2nd term
U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska announced Monday that he will not seek re-election in 2014, saying he wants a "quieter time" to focus on his family ...
Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight
On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking ...
Discovery bets on 2 dope series about pot growers
Cupcake makers, pawnbrokers and storage container raiders have all had their moments in reality television's spotlight. Now the time may be right for ...
Lawmaker says Iran will never close nuclear site
A prominent Iranian lawmaker is saying his country will never close the Fordo nuclear site in exchange for an ease in Western sanctions. A Sunday ...
No central agency oversees, inspects cruise ships
A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it ...
Lawmakers probe shortfall in Job Corps program
House and Senate lawmakers are investigating a nearly $100 million shortfall at the federal Job Corps program that has prompted the Labor Department ...
States' choices set up national health experiment
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better ...
New Yorkers react to mayor's plastic foam ban push
Barely 24 hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed an all-out ban on plastic foam food containers in the city and already New Yorkers are asking: ...
FAA moves toward creating 6 drone test sites in US
In a major step toward opening U.S. skies to thousands of unmanned drones, federal officials Thursday solicited proposals to create six drone test ...
NKorea to face sanctions for nuke, but China key
For the past decade, the world's most powerful nations have turned to sanctions in an attempt to punish North Korea for a series of rocket launches ...
Consequences of failure laid out in budget fight
A new plan by Senate Democrats to head off severe spending cuts in two weeks met an icy reception from Republicans on Thursday as administration ...
NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight
After four months helping in ground zero recovery post-Sept. 11, New York City Police Officer Nick Russo sought respite by moving with his family to ...
Feds roll out cyber plan as Hill vows legislation
Declaring that America is losing an aggressive cyber-espionage campaign waged from China, administration officials and lawmakers on Wednesday agreed ...
Lew signals support for tax code rewrite
Jacob Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, pledged to work with Congress on a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code while ...
FACT CHECK: Overreaching in State of Union speech
President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for ...
NY health chief: Longer gas-drilling study needed
Environmental groups praised state regulators for delaying a decision on shale gas development until a more in-depth health study is finished, but ...
Wisconsin tribe threatens Walker jobs project
For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs ...
Spanish police: 2 commit suicide over eviction
A retired married couple committed suicide Tuesday and left a note saying they were going to lose their home, helping stoke an outcry over Spain's ...
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