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DETROIT (AP) — An electrical engineer with a doctorate degree from Stanford University has asked U.S. safety regulators to investigate low-speed unint...

NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, is offering its own online video alternative as people spend fewer hours watching live T...

Natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electric power generation for the first time ever earlier this spring, a milestone that has been i...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Pope is on Twitter, along with the Dalai Lama, world leaders and, of course, Kim Kardashian. The short-messaging service can bring...

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...