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A bill that would power up California's already ambitious effort to shift to cleaner, renewable energy has cleared the state legislature, but it was uncertain if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would sign it

When the members of AFI began work on their 2006 album, Decemberunderground, they tried really hard not to think about it as the follow-up to a big successful record, guitarist Jade Puget says.

Following bad weather on Friday, shuttle Discovery had to make a detour and land in California, as opposed to its original planned landing at the Florida base.

A community watchdog group expressed outrage and Wells Fargo said it was launching an investigation after a newspaper reported that a senior exec threw lavish parties at a beachfront Malibu house owned by the bank.

Financier Danny Pang, who was accused by U.S. securities regulators of perpetrating a massive Ponzi scheme on mainly Taiwanese investors, has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday.

When it comes to water, it is pretty clear to investors that a growing global shortage will bring in new business opportunities.

Hacker Albert Gonzalez, accused of masterminding the massive data thefts at BJ's Wholesale Club, TJX and several other retailers, pleaded guilty to some of the largest identity-theft crimes on record on Friday while leaving the federal judge wondering how to compensate his millions of victims.

NASA has ordered astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery to switch to a backup runway in California for their planned landing Friday because thunderstorms blocked its return home to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115.

Michael Jackson was buried with one of his iconic white gloves, sunglasses and dressed with pearl beads and a large gold belt, his sister, La Toya, said in a television interview to air on Friday.

China Internet search giant Baidu Inc is likely to maintain its search lead over rival Google in China in the near term, given the firm's aggressive expansion plans, a top Baidu executive said.

On a hazy mid-August morning at the swanky Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, California, indie rock royalty Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis -- who have gathered to promote their new band, Monsters of Folk -- are nestled on a mustard-colored couch in a quiet room with all-yellow vintage decor that resembles a set from a Stanley Kubrick film. At the moment, however, their concerns are b...

JPMorgan Chase & Co is expanding its U.S. commercial banking business, even amid the recession, and is considering a return to commercial real estate next year.

Chip companies ASML and Texas Instruments raised sales forecasts, in another sign consumers are buying more gadgets, sending technology shares higher on Thursday.

Walt Disney Co on Thursday dashed fan speculation that it plans to resurrect the Michael Jackson 3-D film Captain EO in its theme parks, saying the 1986 short movie is dated.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association have asked an appeals court to review the federal government's decision to let California set its own auto emissions standard.

U.S. stocks gained for a fifth straight session on Thursday, their longest string of gains since November, as a bright outlook from consumer product company Procter & Gamble and a successful Treasury bond auction boosted investors' confidence.

A California lawmaker who resigned after he was caught on tape bragging about his sexual exploits with two women, one of them reportedly a lobbyist, denied on Thursday that he was having extramarital affairs.

U.S. stocks rose for a fifth straight session on Thursday as a brighter outlook from consumer product company Procter & Gamble and a successful Treasury bond auction encouraged investors about an economic recovery.

U.S. copper futures closed down on Thursday, as prices extended a phase of consolidation below the $3.00 a lb level and fell under the weight of renewed concerns about near-term demand prospects, analysts said.

With global oil consumption having decreased relative to year-earlier levels in every quarter since the middle of last year, we have now experienced four consecutive quarterly declines in world oil use, with another decline expected in the current quarter.