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11 hours 49 min ago

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday as heavy rain began to pelt a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.

17 hours 32 min ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's investment in green energy requires too much green paper for some in Congress.

18 hours 51 min ago

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A well-known expert on the natural gas boom is again facing criticism over his ties to industry and a lack of transparency in how he presents work to the public, fueling debates over research that's been published by major universities.

1 day 4 hours ago

In the small world of big CEOs, the perks can be spectacular.

1 day 12 hours ago

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is accusing Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of launching attacks on her family over her claims of Native American heritage.

1 day 15 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose by $1.26 billion to $2.564 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

1 day 16 hours ago

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An economic outlook sees a bleak future for jobs in the state and a potentially devastating loss of young workers.

1 day 17 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Hewlett-Packard helped pull the Dow Jones industrial average to a slight gain Thursday, giving the index only its fourth gain this month.

1 day 18 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — In a May 23 story about Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, The Associated Press erroneously reported, based on information from Mills, that Sovereign Bank was one of 13 banks committing a total of $20 billion in small business lending over the next three years.

1 day 19 hours ago

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. forecasters predicted Thursday that this year's Atlantic hurricane season would produce a normal number of about nine to 15 tropical storms, with as many as four to eight of those becoming hurricanes.

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