WATERLOO — The Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. has been in Independence for more than a century with generations of the same family providing chee…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The pace of growth in consumer prices slowed last month as food costs fell, but annual core inflation inched up in a posit…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of Americans say they prefer lower prices instead of paying a premium for items labeled “Made in the USA,”…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California legislators and labor unions have reached a tentative agreement that will take the state’s minimum wage f…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wondering how many calories are in that restaurant hamburger? You may not be able to find out until 2017.
BEIJING (AP) — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting with China’s propaganda chief, at a time when Chinese authorities …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherwin-Williams, which has long claimed to “cover the Earth” with its paints, is buying rival Valspar for about $9 billion …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is keeping a key interest rate unchanged in light of global pressures that risk slowing the U.S. economy…
CHICAGO — On a frigid winter morning, Latia Crockett-Holder, 23, emerges from her tent beneath a crumbling overpass in her stocking feet.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A private survey says the growth of U.S. services companies in February slowed to the worst pace in two years, as a measure …
DETROIT (AP) — Uber is once again facing tough questions about safety after one of its drivers was charged with murder.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Vast coal seams dozens of feet thick that lie beneath the rolling hills of the Northern Plains once appeared almost lim…
DETROIT (AP) — Scientists hired by the auto industry have determined the circumstances that cause Takata air bags to explode violently and hur…
MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — Last fall, Target Corp. took its first baby steps toward a more gender-neutral store when it took down the “boys” and “gir…
NEW YORK — Oil advanced a second day, rising briefly above $30 a barrel Monday in New York for the first time in almost a week.
HAVANA (AP) — The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company fro…
DARIEN, N.Y. — At the wise age of 79, Dolores Westfall knows food shopping on an empty stomach is a fool’s errand. On her way to the grocery s…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government is trying to convince hundreds of wealthy investors to move to the U.S. territory, hopin…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned Wednesday global weakness and falling financial markets could depress the U.S. …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael “Burnie” Burns hears a discrepancy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time since 2004, U.S. drivers are expected to pay an average of less than $2 a gallon for gasoline, the govern…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian Pacific plans to ask Norfolk Southern shareholders whether they want the two railroads to pursue a merger.
BASEL, Switzerland — China National Chemical agreed to buy Swiss pesticide and seeds maker Syngenta for more than $43 billion in cash as the s…
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors earned $6.3 billion in the fourth-quarter, helped by a large tax benefit tied to revalued assets in certain Euro…
SEATTLE — Microsoft is recalling about 2.44 million of its Surface tablet power cords because of the risk of fire or electrical shocks, the U.…
WASHINGTON — Consumers ended last year by cautiously holding on to their cash, spending slightly less in December even as their incomes rose f…
NEW YORK (AP) — Soon, losing your ATM card won’t be the financial life-stopping event it used to be. Just don’t also lose your phone.
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