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General Motors filed to become a public company again and let the federal government begin selling down its share.

Generic drug makers have dropped patent lawsuits against pharmaceutical giants in exchange for compensation to delay getting drugs to market ...

Today, many who fled oppression and uncertainty in Vietnam years ago now look at their homeland as a land of opportunity.

A Peruvian court ordered that Lori Berenson, the American imprisoned on charges of collaborating with revolutionaries, complete five years left in her sentence.

A new federal agency is financing attempts to find a renewable replacement for gasoline and diesel fuel, like a new liquid fuel or a much better battery.

The failure of a promising Alzheimer’s drug highlights the gap between diagnosis and treatment.

No state benefits more from federal largess, but a senator voted against the stimulus bill the governor decries “intrusive” policies.

States are moving to close a deadly gap in seat belt laws that allows rear-seat, adult passengers in half the states to ride legally without ...

The phone company plans to allow subscribers to its FiOS TV service watch movies and other video, though charges are to be determined

Emerson Electric Co.’s agreement to sell two motors businesses to Nidec Corp. extends a shift in focus to operations with higher profit margins, the company’s mergers and acquisitions chief said.

California may begin paying bills with IOUs in September for a second year in a row to conserve cash as a legislative logjam over erasing a $19 billion deficit prevents passage of a budget.

Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. might face demands to repurchase as much as $180 billion of troubled mortgages from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Fitch Ratings said.

Private-equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners LP is backing a pair of former Citigroup Inc. executives in a new fixed-income broker-dealer called KGS-Alpha Capital Markets LP, as buyout firms take advantage of turmoil in institutional brokerages.

U.S. stocks rallied, taking the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index higher for a third day, as takeover speculation swirling around homebuilders and commodity producers overshadowed an energy-company slump as oil prices dropped.

Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson and a half dozen competitors are committed to a research strategy for Alzheimer’s disease that has resulted in a string of study failures, the most recent involving Eli Lilly & Co.

Johnson & Johnson, under congressional investigation after a series of over-the-counter medicine recalls, will reorganize its manufacturing and appoint chief quality officers for each of its three business units.

General Motors filed for what may be the second-largest American IPO ever. It would reduce the U.S. to a minority investor

The lure of playing in another Super Bowl brought Brett Favre back to the NFL -- again.



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Eleven police officers in Manila have been suspended after video emerged of a naked detainee being beaten and tortured by one man while others watched.