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Census Report Shows Smartphones Bridging Digital Divide Among Ethnic Groups
While disparities in Internet use persist among racial and ethnic groups, smartphones appear to be helping to bridge the digital divide, according to a report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau earlier ...
White House Threatens To Veto Farm Bill
The White House threatened to veto a five-year farm bill on Thursday because of "unacceptable deep cuts" in food stamps for the poor that could increase hunger across America. In a statement, the ...
Supreme Court Says FTC Can Sue Over Deals That Delay Generic Drug Sales
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday regulators can challenge deals between brand-name drug companies and generic rivals that delay cheaper medicines from going on sale, which regulators say ...
Obama Says Bernanke ‘Stayed A Lot Longer’ Than He Wanted To At Fed
President Barack Obama hinted in an interview aired on Monday that he may be looking for a new chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, saying current Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed a lot longer ...
U.S. Mayors Aim For Resilience To Weather, Energy Challenges
U.S. mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than ...
U.S. Homebuilders’ Confidence Jumps As Recovery Deepens
A majority of U.S. homebuilders view conditions for new construction as favorable for the first time since the housing crisis began seven years ago, in one of the strongest signs yet that the U.S. ...
Analysis: Why Bankrupt W.R. Grace Is Thriving
A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co and its surging sales to ...
Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Widest on Record, Rare EF5
The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City at the end of May had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, ...