Government And Institutions

A federal appeals court has delivered a serious setback to President Barack Obama's health care law, potentially derailing billions of dollars in subsidies for many low- and middle-income people who bought policies.

___ Microsoft makes design central to its future Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft's Surface tablet, he designed food — or "food concepts," he says, such as dried noodles that come wrapped around a pair of chopsticks and a fork that squeezes out sauce.

Share prices on the Lisbon stock exchange are falling more than 4 percent and Portugal's bond yields are ticking higher amid growing concern about the health of one of the country's largest financial groups.

The federal government says it made about $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them.

A company that makes components for power plants is seeking a $260 million, 10-year New Jersey tax incentive to do business in Camden in a deal that would be the third-most lucrative business incentive package ever from New Jersey's state government.

___ How GM's ignition switch redesign went wrong DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars.

How does the U.S. economy do it? Europe is floundering.

Politicians to Snare the Bulls? Midterm election years tend to be rocky for Wall Street amid uncertainty over which party will control Congress. 

As the population of the metro New York/New Jersey area has multiplied during the past century, a linchpin of the region’s commuter rail transportation system has remained unchanged.

The CNBC presidential debate was a train wreck, but as with all failures, there are lessons to be learned – lessons you’d think CEOs, governors and network executives would know by now.

A quarter-century after the collapse of communism, Central Europe faces a new divide: irreconcilable visions of nuclear power that pit nations once on the opposite sides of the Iron Curtain against one another.

The Arizona Legislature wants to help Apple Inc. by extending renewable energy tax credits and exemptions to cover the 1.3-million-square-foot data center it plans to open in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.

A cyberattack similar to previous hacker intrusions from China penetrated computer networks for months at USIS, the government's leading security clearance contractor, before the company noticed, officials and others familiar with an FBI investigation and related official inquiries told The Associated Press.

SolarCity will begin offering loans to homeowners for solar systems, a move that industry analysts say could reshape the market for rooftop solar and propel its rapid adoption.

Twitter is suing the FBI and the Department of Justice to be able to release more information about government surveillance of its users.

The federal Office of Personnel Management plans to terminate its massive contracts with USIS, the major security clearance contractor that was targeted last month by a cyberattack, agency, congressional and company officials said Tuesday.

A video game distributor says Thailand's film and video censors have banned a city-building simulation game for computers because it could hurt the country's security.

Rocket science long dismissed as too impractical and expensive for everyday cars is getting a push into the mainstream by Toyota, the world's top-selling automaker.

The White House is requesting congressional taxwriting committees write legislation that would  'immediately' shut down the use of tax inversions.

Freddie Mac said on Thursday it will soon send the U.S. Treasury a $10.4 billion dividend after posting a ninth-straight quarterly profit, putting taxpayers further into the black on their bailout of the mortgage giant.