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Associated Press - March 18, 2010 11:05 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's oldest and largest tobacco shop says a higher tax could run it out of business.

Norway's Opera says downloads of its browser have more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges.

A federal grand jury reportedly has issued subpoenas in a probe involving Sen. John Ensign of Nevada.

Space shuttle Discovery has some leaky valves that could delay its launch next month.

The Philadelphia-area woman who authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot.

A defense lawyer says a former top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton intends to plead guilty in a federal bank fraud case.

Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong.

Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul.

A Democratic Ohio congressman said a group opposed to health care overhaul went too far by taking out a newspaper ad that included a large photo of him with his two young daughters.

California lawmakers on Thursday will consider what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts off the beach, eliminate second-hand smoke and reduce...

A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on.

Days from now, a stately black schooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights - the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca wins the first trial brought by a patient alleging its psychiatric drug Seroquel caused harm.

The CEO of European plane maker EADS said Thursday that his company is looking for a "medium-sized" acquisition in the U.S. following a failed bid for a $35 billion Pentagon contract.

House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while also reducing the federal deficit in a...

Israeli drug maker Teva has beaten out rivals Pfizer and Actavis to acquire German generic drug maker Ratiopharm GmbH - in a deal announced Thursday worth some euro3.6 billion, or nearly $5 billion.

Israeli drug maker Teva has beaten out rivals Pfizer and Actavis to acquire German generic drug maker Ratiopharm GmbH - in a deal announced Thursday worth some €3.6 billion, or nearly $5 billion.

Australia expressed disappointment Thursday that charges of stealing business secrets against one of its citizens would be tried in a closed court in China, and some lawmakers doubted the mining executive involved would get...

Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou said Thursday his country needs a firmer eurozone bailout plan to lift market pressure on his government and lower its borrowing rates.