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Cash-Strapped States Cut Funding For HIV, AIDS Drugs

Cash-strapped states are scaling back efforts to provide life-saving medicines to HIV patients. The result: more than 8,300 people -- a record number -- are...

Indian Call Centers Begin Outsourcing Jobs To U.S.

New York — Ray Capuana paces the rows of cubicles in a haggard high-rise a stone’s throw from Wall Street as his people hustle the...

Greek Protesters Riot Over Financial Crisis

Already struggling to avoid a debt default that could seal Greece's fate as a financial pariah, this Mediterranean nation is also scrambling to contain another...

‘Same Old Script’ With China’s Latest Visit To The U.S.

Here we go again. China's Supreme Leader visits Washington, and administration officials declare in the run-up to the visit that the United States has had...

Firm Offers Journalists Cash For Their Opinions On Oil, Gas Industries

News reporters are supposed to keep their opinions out of their copy. They certainly aren't supposed to sell them back to the people they cover....

72 Super PACs Spent $83.7 Million On Midterm Elections

The newly created independent political groups known as super PACs, which raised and spent millions of dollars on last month's elections, drew much of their...

European Debt Crisis Escalates: Will Spain Be The Next To Fall?

The debt crisis in Europe escalated sharply Friday as investors dumped Spanish and Portuguese bonds in panicked selling, substantially heightening the prospect that one or...

States, Banks In Talks Over Fund For Foreclosure Mess Losses

State attorneys general and the country's biggest lenders are negotiating to create a nationwide fund to compensate borrowers who can prove they lost their home...

For Many Businesses, 2010 Midterm Election Campaign Was A Winner

The 2010 election season was good for Design Cuisine of Arlington, which took in more than $500,000 in catering fees. The Bighorn Golf Club in...

Why Political Gridlock Could Be Seriously Damaging To The Economy: Mohamed El-Erian

With the two chambers of Congress split between Democrats and Republicans, the conventional wisdom likely to be repeated over the next few weeks is that...

Companies May Have To Make Amends After Midterm Elections

Republicans have a message for the businesses that worked closely with the Obama administration over the past two years on key controversial issues: We won't...

Federal Reserve’s, Bernanke’s Credibility On Line With New Move To Boost Economy

If the efforts succeed, they could finally help bring down the stubbornly high jobless rate. But should the Fed overshoot in its plan to pump...