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States bring price fixing suit against generic drug makers

Attorneys general from more than 40 states are alleging the nation's largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs, including treatments for diabetes, cancer, arthritis and other medical conditions.

Potential sale of shuttered GM plant clouded with doubt

The fate of a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio remains very much up in the air even after a tweet from President Donald Trump heralded the potential sale of a factory he has shown an intense interest in saving.

The Latest: Chinese envoy says trade talks didn't break down

The Latest on the tariffs standoff between the United States and China as trade talks are underway in Washington (all times local): 12:40 p.m. China's government says it will take "necessary countermeasures" in response to President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese imports but gave no details of possible retaliation.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces trial for 'pedo' insult of diver

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will have to go to trial to defend himself for mocking a British diver as a pedophile in a verbal sparring match that unfolded last summer after the underwater rescue of youth soccer players trapped in a Thailand cave.

Space-tourism enters 'home stretch' toward commercial flight

British billionaire Richard Branson and his space-tourism company Virgin Galactic announced new steps Friday toward offering thrill rides into the low reaches of space for paying passengers, with the company immediately starting to move personnel and space vehicles from California to a launch and landing facility in the New Mexico desert.

Utah event celebrates Transcontinental Railroad anniversary

Thousands of people gathered Friday at the remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a nation long separated by vast expanses of desert, mountains and forests and fresh off the Civil War.

Risky politics? Trump wields his tariffs as a weapon at home

His trade war already raging worldwide, President Donald Trump on Friday brandished his aggressive approach as a political weapon at home, too, casting himself as a fighter for American workers and scorning his chief Democratic rivals as weak.