LONDON – Oil rose a dollar on Wednesday as a tropical storm strengthened and headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, threatening U.S. oil and gas rigs still recovering from last year’s devastating hurricanes. Concern about the storm’s effect on energy supplies to the world’s largest consumer came as U.S. data …

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MIAMI – U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.” The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not …

BEIJING – China’s leaders have issued a pledge to use the country’s growing prosperity to promote global peace, state media said Thursday, amid unease abroad at Beijing’s mounting political and military strength. Ending a three-day conference on foreign policy, President Hu Jintao and other leaders also issued instructions to spread …

NEW YORK – A Republican rival to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will resume her campaign this week after a two-day suspension to deal with her teenage daughter’s arrest on a shoplifting charge, a top strategist for her campaign said Tuesday. Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland, a former Pentagon official under President …

Shutterfly, a photo website that ranked No. 170 on last year’s Inc 500, is going public, the company announced Thursday. The Redwood City, Calif.-based firm, which was founded in 1999, filed a $92 million initial public offering and will trade on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SFLY, according to …

WASHINGTON – Americans evacuating Lebanon continue to arrive in the United States, and U.S. officials expect the numbers to grow in the coming days. Five Navy vessels led by the USS Nashville, with a capacity of 1,200, are moving Americans out of the Mideast country. Four more Navy vessels will …

NEW YORK – America Online, the online unit of Time Warner Inc. (TWX), is considering offering its services, including e-mail, free to customers who already have a high-speed Internet connection, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Under terms of the proposal, which comes amid AOL’s quickly depreciating subscriber base, AOL …

LONDON – Britain fell silent Friday on the first anniversary of the suicide bombing assault on London’s transit system — a stunning strike that killed 52 commuters and wounded more than 700 in the capital’s deadliest attack since World War II. Prime Minister Tony Blair, survivors and city workers bowed …

WASHINGTON – America’s trade deficit rose in May as the price of imported oil jumped by the largest amount since 1990 in the run-up to the first U.S.-Iraq war. The Commerce Department reported that the trade imbalance rose by 0.8 percent to $63.8 billion compared to a revised April deficit …