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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple’s iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads. No...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers in 31 U.S. states cut jobs last month as weak economic growth weighed on hiring and a slowdown in oil and gas drilling cau...

AURELIUS, N.Y. (AP) — A Canada-based agricultural company is looking to build a $12 million, 60,000-square foot facility in the Cayuga County Industri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New federal grants will help 10 states test programs to help food stamp recipients find jobs, from using career coaches to quicker t...

CAIRO (AP) — The idea is colossal: building an eco-friendly city the size of Singapore in the desert outside Cairo, a sleek new capital fit for the 21...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. airlines are saving tens of millions of dollars every week because of lower prices for jet fuel, their largest expense. So why do...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Reynolds American is launching a cigarette that heats tobacco rather than burning it, hoping to capitalize on the growing appetit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A company that operates at least 13 wind-energy facilities across three states is suing in federal court to block the U.S. governmen...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hellmann’s mayonnaise has some egg on its face. After suing a small California company for calling its eggless product “Just Mayo,” He...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Pfizer said Monday that it will partner with German drug and chemical maker Merck in developing potential cancer drugs in a hot n...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency that insures pensions for about 41 million Americans saw its deficit nearly double in the latest fiscal year. The...

LONDON (AP) — The global economy’s problems seem to be multiplying. Hours after the leaders of the world’s 20 most developed economies sought to boost...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a deal that shows just how quickly falling prices can upend the energy industry, Halliburton is buying rival oilfield services comp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army’s $5 billion intelligence network has largely failed in its promise to make crucial data easily accessible to soldiers and ...

JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) — On Mount Monadnock, hikers file up the 3,165-foot peak in lockstep, protected from drizzling rain by a luminous golden canopy of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon says that more coordination between businesses and government is needed to combat the rising threat o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as the U.S. job market has finally strengthened, the Federal Reserve now confronts a new worry: A sputtering global economy tha...

NEW YORK (AP) — Free lunches, dry cleaning, massages — frozen eggs? Silicon Valley’s biggest companies have long offered cushy perks to attract top ta...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nike’s Converse brand is suing 31 companies, saying they are selling knockoff versions of its Chuck Taylor shoes. Converse is suing Sk...

NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s wants to explain why its burgers may not rot and that there are no worms in its beef. The world’s biggest hamburger chain i...