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Republicans in the House are dismissing as meaningless the Treasury's Aug. 2 date for a default unless the nation's debt ceiling is raised, sharply raising the political and economic stakes.
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Google is close to settling a U.S. criminal probe into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws
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In a landmark finding that scientists say could help stem the global AIDS pandemic, researchers announced that treating HIV patients with AIDS drugs makes them strikingly less infectious.
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Outside the stock exchange in Italy's financial capital sits an unambiguous symbol: a giant marble middle finger.
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Electronic thieves stole from bank accounts of customers of Michaels Stores in 20 states, by tampering with the retailer's debit-card processing equipment at about 80 stores.
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Federal prosecutors are seeking about $1 billion to resolve a long investigation into Johnson & Johnson's marketing of antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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Google is near to settling a U.S. criminal probe into whether it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 65.89 points to 12695.92, reversing sharp morning losses, as commodities rebounded and defensive stocks strengthened.
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Damage at Japan's nuclear plant is worse than thought. Tokyo Electric said a reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi complex likely suffered a severe meltdown of its core after the March earthquake. Vessels that surround the core may be damaged, leaking water that is supposed to keep the core cool. Separately, Tokyo reached a deal to rescue Tepco and fund compensation claims that could exceed $30 billion.
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Regulators found flaws in emergency gear at some U.S. reactors, but overall gave them a clean bill of health.
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Republicans in the House are expressing doubt about the need to raise the federal debt ceiling by the Treasury's deadline date of Aug. 2.
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Researchers said treating HIV patients with AIDS drugs makes them much less infectious, a result that could help stem the global pandemic.
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Americans shopped cautiously last month as rising gas prices crimped their spending on discretionary items.
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A swimming pool company that failed to install a required safety device in a family's pool triggered the drowning of a six-year-old boy, state prosecutors argued, and led to an unusual homicide case against the company's president.
The Senate Ethics Committee concluded that former Sen. John Ensign may have violated federal laws and Senate rules in his handling of an affair with a former aide and referred the matter to the Justice Department.
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Oil companies and their profits were reluctant guest stars Thursday in a Capitol Hill melodrama that paired energy policy with the federal deficit.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty remains little-known beyond his home state, but he has begun to line up wealthy donors, a critical constituency.
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Romney delivered an unequivocal defense of the health-care plan he championed as governor of Massachusetts.
A sweeping education bill that would make it easier to fire low-performing teachers statewide and allow mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel to lengthen the Chicago school day passed the Illinois House.
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The Mississippi River flood means heartache for many. For others, it means great fishing. Within minutes of putting worm to hook, locals are hauling out a freshwater bounty.
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Leo Kahn used a lifetime of experience in the grocery business to co-found Staples, spelling the end to the neighborhood stationery store.
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One of the reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant likely suffered a substantial meltdown of its core, Tepco said.
Japan's government announced a comprehensive plan to rescue Tokyo Electric Power and fund compensation claims stemming from the country's worst-ever nuclear-energy disaster that are expected to total more than $30 billion.
China moved again to head off inflation by requiring banks to hold more of their deposits in reserve, the eighth such move since November, despite little evidence that measure is taming prices and worries that it is depriving needy smaller companies of capital.
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An Iranian exile group once allied with Saddam Hussein has enlisted former top U.S. officials to try to get it removed from the State Department's terrorist list.
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NATO airstrikes struck Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli and three other sites, hours after the Libyan leader was shown on state TV.
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A popular reformist leader in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said he will run for president, in a move that raises the possibility that Islamist politicians could dominate the country's presidency and its parliament.
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Syrian security forces conducted a wave of detentions across at least six cities Thursday that activists said appeared to focus on not only opposition activists but lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and educated professionals.
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India's prime minister unveiled a new strategic partnership with Afghanistan that seeks to deepen economic, security and political ties and represents a slap at Pakistan's attempts to expand its influence in Kabul.
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A senior IMF official said debt restructuring would provide no miracle cure for Greece's debt crisis, as a delegation of European and IMF officials continued to pore over the Greek government's finances.
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Ugandan security forces fired at protesters in the capital and battled thousands of demonstrators who had turned out to welcome veteran opposition leader Kizza Besigye back from Kenya.
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Retired U.S. auto worker John Demjanjuk was convicted of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp and sentenced to five years in prison—closing one chapter in a decades-long legal battle.
Eager to lower the price of HIV treatment, AIDS advocates have enlisted scientists to tinker with the chemistry used to synthesize a key drug, reducing the cost of manufacturing it.
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When economic wobbles spooked their peers, the top analysts in the Journal's latest Best on the Street ranking remained optimistic. They pulled away from the pack by staying focused on their own sectors and identifying opportunities when they emerged.
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