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Washington - The Senate's approval Wednesday of a two-year, $109 billion transportation bill gives Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer a prize that has sometimes eluded her: a newly polished reputation …

The Goldman Sachs Building and the Empire State Building. (Photo: Derek D / Flickr) Wall Street traders come and go all the time, but few have quit …

Rush Limbaugh (Photo: Brett Tatman / Flickr)

Florida’s GOP dominated legislature, along with Republican Gov. Rick Scott, has already decided that it would be prudent to pay for a corporate tax break by slashing the state’s …

The cost of solar power in North Carolina is falling steeply, a state trade group reported, providing the first real evidence of a trend that is likely occurring in …

Mumbai, India - India’s government on Monday authorized a drug manufacturer to make and sell a generic copy of a patented Bayer cancer drug, saying that Bayer charged a …

For 76 years domestic workers have been excluded from federal labor law—from overtime and safety and health protections in addition to collective bargaining rights. The exclusion was …

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling …

David Koch. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The …

A Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant worker grinds a metal support stand. (Photo: ACWA / Flickr) "When I graduated from Muncie Central High School, you could go …