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BEIJING -- Attorneys for family members of China’s prime minister hit back over the weekend at the New York Times, calling the newspaper’s report about wealth amassed by Wen Jiabao’s family “untrue” and suggesting they may...

Competing news today on the economic front: Consumer confidence slipped by the largest amount in 10 months, driven down by concerns about the labor market. But year-over-year home prices rose in 20 cities, the first time that's happened in two years,...

Remember the federal government???s corporate average fuel economy rules? They were supposed to raise industry-wide gas mileage to 54.5 mpg by CAFE standards, or the high 30s in combined EPA gas mileage on window stickers, by the 2025 model year.......

Bloomberg News reporter Julie Hirschfelt Davis writes that Mitt Romney is expected to talk about his experience as  Mormon bishop in his address to GOP delegates today: Mitt Romney will talk about his time as a Mormon bishop at the Republican convention...

Bloomberg News reports today (read it here) that Penn State is projecting increased athletics revenue this year, buoyed by continued spending on the football program. Despite lower attendance through the first three home homes (last week's attendance of...

The couple will present “The Hospitality of Writing” on Thursday, Oct. 25  at 3:30 p.m. in historic Alumni Hall. The public is invited to this Mount Aloysius College Fall Honors Lecture free of charge. In early September, Mount Aloysius...

University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst thinks she and her college are not famous enough, and last week she did something about it. She hired Tysen Kendig as the university's new publicity mogul for $227,500. But before Tysen Kendig —...

Soon after hearing that Hostess Brands Inc. was shutting down for good, Lisa Renee Clark wasted no time dashing out to the Wonder Hostess Bakery Thriftshop in Glen Burnie. But by midday Friday, she was almost too late. The Twinkies had sold out. Supplies...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney spoke to supporters in the Ohio town of Defiance last week, but his words came from the twin cities of Duplicity and Deception. "I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the...

Ford says EPA ratings for the six-speed-manual 2013 Focus ST are 23/32 mpg city/highway, beating out the rival Mazdaspeed3 (18/25 mpg), Volkswagen GTI (21/31 mpg) and Subaru Impreza WRX (19/25 mpg) with manual transmissions. The automatic-transmission GTI...

The Los Angeles Fire Commission has formed a new task force to help address lingering questions about its emergency response time data, officials said Tuesday....

GM is teaming with car-sharing service RelayRides to allow Chevrolet, GMC, Buick or Cadillac owners to unlock their doors via an OnStar app, Reuters reports, making it easier to facilitate car sharing than cars without a telematics system. Car sharing.......