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Two Chinese steel companies combined Monday to form the world’s fifth-largest producer, the latest in a series of government-orchestrated deals aimed at creating globally competitive suppliers amid booming demand.The new state-owned company was formed...
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Mortgage application volume fell last week to its lowest levels in more than six years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. says its profit edged up in the second-quarter and is raising its full-year earnings forecast as frugal shoppers look for deals at...
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An Italian restaurant in Harlem that once counted Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as regulars has turned back the clock 75 years.
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U.S. stocks appeared headed for a rebound Wednesday after an upbeat profit report from Hewlett-Packard Co. offered investors reassurance about the economy.
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It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders.
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Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding,...
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A coalition of same-sex marriage opponents and taxpayer groups is trying to persuade voters to approve a state constitutional convention in the hopes of bringing the...
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Hawaii voters for the first time must pick a political party when voting in this year’s primary election, a requirement that election officials hope will result...
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A man who killed 11 people by causing a commuter rail disaster in Glendale faces sentencing, one month after a jury recommended he serve life in prison without the...
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Their spots on the November ballot now secure, Democratic incumbent Chris Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi enter the homestretch in what likely will be the...
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A small plane carrying Secret Service agents assigned to Republican presidential candidate John McCain made a forced landing after taking off from a Phoenix area...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said he won’t recommend a replacement for slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before delegates gather in Denver next week...
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Federal officials accuse five Midwest states of violating a new pollution standard for tiny soot particles that can cause respiratory distress in children and the...
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They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn’t easy, either.
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They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn’t easy, either.
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The National Park Service has dropped its plan to expand the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield, saying the $1.1 million project would have blemished historic...
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Indigenous Mexicans make up nearly a quarter of the farmhands who pick the apples, cherries and other crops in western Washington, a new survey has found.
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Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms’ length, yet there won’t be much stiff-arming at their...
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When Barack Obama announces his choice for vice president, the real payoff may come during the next few months _ one text message at a time.
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President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech...
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The drug store and pharmacy benefit management industries on Tuesday will announce a combination of their information systems in order to boost electronic prescribing...
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Internet broadcaster JumpTV Inc. rejected a proposal from Web entrepreneur Brad Greenspan and plans to go ahead with a merger with U.S. online TV service NeuLion...
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NBC Sports and World Championship Sports Network are forming a partnership to create a network that airs Olympic sports.Universal Sports will include a television...
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Britain’s largest union said Sunday it is merging with United Steelworkers, creating the first trans-Atlantic labor organization.UNITE, which represents more than...
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Continental Airlines is telling its employees that now is not the time for the airline to combine with another carrier.Continental Chairman and CEO Larry Kellner said...
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The Justice Department last week approved Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s proposed $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., saying the deal was...
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When antitrust regulators decided last week to allow the nation’s only two satellite radio companies to become one, they put forth an unexpected argument _ that...
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The Justice Department on Monday approved Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s proposed $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., saying the deal was...
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The Justice Department has approved Sirius Satellite Radio’s $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio.The merger was approved despite opposition from...
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It took an unusual approach to solve the problem that almost scuttled the open-wheel unification talks. While the Champ Car World Series is no more, there will be one...
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While the Champ Car World Series is no more, there will be one more Champ Car race.Indy Racing League founder Tony George and Kevin Kalkhoven, owner of the now-defunct...
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The IRL’s IndyCar Series hopes to add two Champ Car races to its 2008 schedule as part of the unification of America’s two open-wheel series.IRL founder...
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The long, bitter open-wheel split is over.After 12 years of rivalry which confused fans, promoted apathy and nearly buried the sport, the Champ Car World Series has...
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The Indy Racing League and the Champ Car series have signed a deal to unify the two American open-wheel series.IRL spokesman John Griffin said Champ Car co-owners Kevin...
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Champ Car co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven left Indianapolis Friday without an agreement to unify the two American open-wheel series, but Indy Racing League founder Tony George...
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An agreement to unify America’s two open-wheel racing series under the Indy Racing League banner appears to be close to completion.Talks between IRL founder Tony...
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A deal that would unify America’s two open-wheel racing series under the IRL umbrella entered the final stages Thursday.Talks have centered on a proposal in which...
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A deal that would unify America’s two open-wheel racing series entered the final stages Thursday.Rather than a merger, talks have centered on a proposal in which...
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The possible unification of America’s two open-wheel racing series was in the hands of the lawyers Wednesday, working out the final details of a deal that could...
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko looks on as he waits for his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at the Brest Fortress World War II memorial, in Brest, Belarus, Sunday, June 22, 2008. Medvedev met with the president of Belarus on Sunday to...
