EU officials seek more private investment in jobs

DUBLIN — With many of the European Union's economies mired in stagnation, EU officials are seeking to emulate part of the U.S. model for creating growth and jobs by fostering more private investment in businesses. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan...

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Adjunct faculty to discuss forming union in Boston

BOSTON — Adjunct faculty members from across the Boston area are planning to meet to discuss the possibility of forming a union. Adjunct faculty are hired on a temporary basis and typically do not have the benefits of tenured faculty or those on a track...

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Medicare increase could ding some in middle class

WASHINGTON — Retired city worker Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. Pugach doesn't see herself as upper-income by any stretch, but President Barack Obama's budget would raise...

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Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies

Born in the Deep South and caught up in the romance of journalism at an early age, George McArthur was not one to let social taboos or politics interfere with a good story. As a campus reporter for the local newspaper, covering civil rights and racial...

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Federal budget cuts poised to hit Mass. unemployed

BOSTON — Tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents who are out of a job and collecting unemployment benefits for more than 26 weeks will see their federal unemployment insurance assistance cut by nearly 13 percent as the automatic federal budget cuts...

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Pfizer shifts workers to Kendall Square Drug maker Pfizer Inc. will relocate a majority of its 530 Cambridge North workers from Alewife to Kendall Square. The company will also sell or sub-lease its buildings at 87, 200, and 35 CambridgePark Drive,...

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Condos on the rise in Danvers

The Massachusetts condo market is finally warming up. After several years of slow growth, developers are building again and potential owners are buying from floor plans. Just a few years ago, real estate developers were converting their condo buildings...

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UMass Medical nurses authorize strike

WORCESTER, Mass. — Nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have authorized union leaders to schedule a one-day strike. The Massachusetts Nurses Association says 83 percent of the system's more than 2,000 nurses voted in favor of the measure...

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Starbucks cuts suggested price of bagged coffee

NEW YORK — Starbucks is cutting the suggested retail price of its bagged coffee sold in supermarkets, following similar moves by competitors amid falling commodity costs. The Seattle-based chain says 12-ounce bags of its whole and ground coffee will...

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JPMorgan CEO: 'Work to do' on controls, compliance

NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase, the country's biggest bank by assets, says its first-quarter earnings soared, even as revenue fell slightly. The bank made $6.1 billion in the first quarter, after stripping out payments to preferred shareholders. That was...

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Takeover of Weymouth hospital moves forward

BOSTON — The state Public Health Council has voted to grant a license to transfer ownership of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth to Partners HealthCare System. Council members, on a 9-to-1 vote with one abstention, approved a "determination of need"...

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Senate president: Mass needs to debate living wage

BOSTON — Massachusetts needs to have a conversation about what constitutes a living wage, Senate President Therese Murray told business leaders Thursday. In a breakfast speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Plymouth Democrat noted that...

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Senate President Murray touts Legislature's transportation plan

A $500 million legislative transportation financing bill that has cleared the House, but is now under Senate scrutiny will better establish benchmarks for revenue, savings and reforms for both the state Department of Transportation and MBTA compared...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg launches political group

NEW YORK — Teaming up with other Silicon Valley leaders, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research. Zuckerberg announced...

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US unemployment aid applications plummet to 346K

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, signaling that the job market might be stronger than March's weak month of hiring suggested. Applications for unemployment aid...

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Alberta premier: Rejection would mar relations

TORONTO — Alberta's premier says if the Obama administration rejects the Keystone XL pipeline it be would be a significant thorn in Canadian-U.S. relations. Premier Alison Redford said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that the issue...

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Blacks still face challenges in economic equality

WASHINGTON — The National Urban League says African-Americans are making tremendous gains in education, but have seen little change in economic equality in the last 50 years. In its annual State of Black America report, the civil rights group said unemployment...

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Dutch recall 50,000 tons of meat across Europe

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch authorities are recalling 50,000 tons of meat sold as beef across Europe because its exact source cannot be established and it may contain horse meat, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. The announcement was the latest development...

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Nobel prizewinner, IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead

LONDON — Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87. The University of Cambridge,...

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Taylor Morrison rises in 1st day as public company

NEW YORK — Shares of Taylor Morrison Home Corp. are rising in its debut as a publicly traded company. The homebuilder's entry on the New York Stock Exchange comes on the same day that another homebuilder filed for an initial public offering, further...

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Microsoft escalates advertising assault on Google

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity between the two rivals. The missive that began Tuesday...

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Britain to share tax info with European countries

LONDON — Britain says it has struck a deal with France, Germany, Spain and Italy to share financial data and fight tax evasion. The British government says a pilot program will be developed that allows for data to be automatically shared among the five...

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Markets flatfooted as US earnings season begins

LONDON — A mixed earnings report from aluminum company Alcoa Corp. failed to provide markets with much direction Tuesday amid continuing concerns over North Korea, bird flu in China and Europe's debt crisis kept many investors on the sidelines. Alcoa,...

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Survey: Small business optimism falls in March

NEW YORK — Optimism among small business owners took a dive last month as expectations for their companies' sales and the economy fell, according to a survey released Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Business said its index of small business...

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BMW sets monthly sales record with 3 pct increase

FRANKFURT, Germany — German luxury automaker BMW AG says it had its best month ever in March, increasing global sales by 3 percent to 191,269 vehicles. For the first three months of the year, sales rose by 5.3 percent compared with a year earlier, to...

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Lawmaker: Iran could quit nuclear treaty

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will keep the option of withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on the table and will seriously consider it if the West intensifies sanctions or refers the case to the U.N. Security Council, a leading lawmaker warned...

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Newspaper revenue fell 2 pct to $38.6B in 2012

ARLINGTON, Va. — The decline in revenue in the newspaper industry slowed last year. The Newspaper Association of America reports total revenue in 2012 fell 2 percent to $38.6 billion from $39.5 billion in 2011, the slowest pace in six years. The association...

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Markets settle after US jobs disappointment

LONDON — Japanese shares were the standout once again on Monday as the yen's depreciation gathered pace. Markets elsewhere steadied following a sell-off at the end of last week after disappointing U.S. jobs data. With tensions mounting on the Korean...

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Ericsson to buy Microsoft's TV software unit

NEW YORK — Ericsson says it has agreed to buy Microsoft's Mediaroom business, which makes the software that powers AT&T's U-Verse TV service. Ericsson, the Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment, did not say in its announcement how much it's...

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BP calls 1st witness at trial over Gulf spill

NEW ORLEANS — BP's first witness at a trial over the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster says the company safely drilled its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico before an April 2010 blowout triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Retired LSU petroleum...

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Fenway hopes to ring in a homer

Fenway-area businesses are hoping new, young Red Sox blood will deliver wins and customers after last year's worst season since 1965 proved a game-changer for their bottom lines. "We're feeling really positive," said Garrett Harker, owner of Kenmore...

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BlackBerry’s time may be ripe in iPhone battle

One-time smartphone rivals Apple and BlackBerry face crucial tests in the U.S. market this year, the former to maintain its mobile device edge, the latter merely to survive. In a reversal of fortunes, Apple's shares have dropped 23 percent this year,...

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Study: Home buyers leery The housing markets are in recovery, but a lot of people are still asking: Why buy a home anyway? The housing bust has created great skepticism about the traditional connection between homeownership and the American dream,...

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Oil flush won’t cut down on Monte Carlo’s high consumption

My daughter has a 2004 Monte Carlo SS with the 3.8-liter motor. It uses about two quarts of oil between 3,500-mile changes. At the last oil change, the shop wanted to flush the motor, saying it would reduce the oil consumption. Is this possible? Also,...

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Hackers target Israeli websites

JERUSALEM — A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks followed warnings in the name of the group Anonymous that it was launching a massive hacking assault...

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