Stocks, looking tired after 3-month run, hit pause
NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market's rally is on hold, and it's not clear what might restart it....

Friday marks final signoff for analog TV service
NEW YORK (AP) -- TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody....

Historic anti-smoking bill aims at stopping teens
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No more "light" cigarettes or candy-flavored smokes. Bigger, scarier warning labels. Fewer ads featuring sexy young smokers....

GM, Chrysler executives defend dealership closings
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under withering criticism in Congress, General Motors and Chrysler executives on Friday called the closings of hundreds of dealerships painful steps needed to right-size the auto giants. Down-on-their luck dealers said the moves would needlessly devastate their local economies and livelihoods....

Should the new GM start with a new name?
ValuJet was reborn as AirTran. Philip Morris rechristened itself Altria. Blackwater became Xe....

Stalled carbon capture coal plant in Ill. gets OK
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had declared dead....

Gas prices rise for 45 straight days
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gas prices rose Friday for the 45th consecutive day as summer travelers hit the highways and refineries hold back on fuel production....

Drugmakers rush to produce a swine flu vaccine
LONDON (AP) -- With swine flu now an official pandemic, the race is on among drugmakers to produce a vaccine....

Treasury prices rise, yields fall, for a 2nd day
NEW YORK (AP) -- Exuberance over a strong 30-year bond auction extended into a second day Friday, pushing Treasury prices up and yields down....

EU: browser-free Windows gives no real choice
BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all....