Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google
Microsoft began the new year harping on a favorite theme: The software maker is arguing that government regulators need to crack down on Google to ...
Taxes rising for most people despite fiscal deal
While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still ...
Saudis flee dry kingdom to Bahrain for New Year
Residents of Saudi Arabia, where booze and New Year's celebrations are banned, flooded into neighboring Bahrain in search of festivities to ring in ...
Deal will prevent spike in milk prices
A potential doubling of milk prices will be averted as part of the compromise that White House and congressional bargainers reached on wide-ranging ...
AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse
A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the ...
Column: Gun debate revives enduring American fight
On the eve of a new year, a libertarian strain pulses through America — a get-government-out-of-my-personal-life sensibility that cuts across ...
Texas judge OKs ban on Planned Parenthood funding
Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new ...
Federal government lists 2 ice seals as threatened
Two types of ice seals joined polar bears Friday on the list of species threatened by the loss of sea ice, which scientists say reached record low ...
Futures mixed with hours left before fiscal cliff
Stock futures are mixed on the year's final day of trading, with lawmakers trying to push through a last-minute deal on the budget. Dow Jones ...
Deal reached for stopping spike in milk prices
The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired ...
Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were still in disarray as lawmakers returned to the Capitol to confront the ...
Fearful of ban, frenzied buyers swarm gun stores
The phones at Red's Trading Post wouldn't stop ringing. Would-be customers from as far away as New York wanted to know if the Twin Falls, Idaho gun ...
Last ditch effort to avoid fiscal cliff under way
The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from ...
Fewer US banks failing as industry strengthens
U.S. banks are ending the year with their best profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008.
Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom
Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their ...
Futures dip as US hurtles toward fiscal cliff
Stock futures are moving lower ahead of a last-ditch effort by the White House and GOP congressional leaders to hash out a budget deal before a ...
Obama invites congressional leaders to cliff talk
A deadline looming, President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday in search of a compromise to avoid a ...
No ethics breaches found in Countrywide VIP loans
The House Ethics Committee said Thursday it found no violations among House members whose mortgage loans went through the VIP section of the former ...
Atty: Hobby Lobby won't offer morning-after pill
An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health ...
Mich. governor signs new emergency manager law
Gov. Rick Snyder put a new emergency manager law on the books in Michigan on Thursday, weeks after voters repealed a version that gave sweeping powers ...
EPA Administrator Jackson announces resignation
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by ...
Argentine court rejects intervention in media case
Argentina's Supreme Court rejected a proposal by the government to use a new legal regulation to get the top court to intervene in the case of a law ...
AP Interview: Tymoshenko daughter urges sanctions
The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko urged Western nations Thursday to impose sanctions on officials involved in her ...
Futures head higher as Congress returns
Stock futures are heading higher before the government releases what is expected to be the latest positive news for the housing industry. There is a ...
Retailers to recall 150,000-plus baby recliners
Four national retailers agreed to recall more than 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners after at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of ...
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