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What now?

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Adjusting their sights

WASHINGTON - "Obamacare" escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack - one handed to them by the administration itself.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Approaching a half million

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Ex-House Speaker Tom Foley dies at 84

WASHINGTON - Tall and courtly, Tom Foley served 30 years in the House when partisan confrontation was less rancorous than today and Democrats had dominated for decades. He crowned his long political career by becom…

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Nothing permanent

WASHINGTON - It's going to take a lot more political bungling to do any permanent damage to America's reputation or wreck its financial markets.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
A twist to the fight

DETROIT - General Motors is adding a twist to the fight for supremacy in the red-hot U.S. pickup truck market: It's raising prices.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
A tight place to sit

It's not your imagination. There really is a tighter squeeze on many planes these days.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
A day away from 'deadbeat nation'

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Executive: Diet Coke under pressure

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Microsoft's phone update to feature driving mode

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Somebody's sifting

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Debt ceiling talks push stocks higher

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Economists win Nobel for research on financial markets

Ordinary investors don't stand much chance of beating the market. It moves way too fast and efficiently. Or it behaves in ways that make no sense at all.

Updated 12 years, 11 months ago
Bridget Jones is back in 'Mad About the Boy'