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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's selection of an old White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over an intelligence expert....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Although he calls himself a senator, Roland Burris has found little support among fellow Democrats in his effort to take the Senate seat to which embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed him....

Monty Moran is Co-CEO. First European store to open in fourth quarter 2009.

Continued sales credited to the segment's ability to offer items at various price points.

IHOP is offering All You Can Eat pancakes for $4.99

CKE's leaderhip says the one-year plan is intended to generally 'guard against abusive takeover tactics.'

The integrated 'You Kin Do It' campaign is expected to run through 2009 and will include online marketing.

Fazoli's plans to give away coupons worth of 2.7 million pounds of free spaghetti.

Burger King is launching a Web site, www.angry-gram.com, in support of its newest sandwiches, the Angry Whopper, Angry Double Whopper, and Angry Triple Whopper.

Drive-in No. 3,500 opened today in the Chicago suburb of Algonquin,

Three additional CiCi's Pizzas are planned for 2009 as the chain bets on Vegas returning to 'its bargain roots.'

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. extended its agreement with McDonald’s® to offer Newman’s Own® Organics Coffee in New England and Albany, New York

TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota is suspending production at all 12 of its Japan plants for 11 days over February and March, a stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation's top automaker as it grapples with shrinking global demand....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican and Democratic House members said Monday that the alleged $50 billion fraud involving Wall Street figure Bernard Madoff reflects deep, systemic problems at the Securities and Exchange Commission....

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Left out of the national title game, Colt McCoy and Texas made the most of their trip to the Fiesta Bowl....

GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) -- Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore....