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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Thursday approved the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring is anemic but corporate profits are up, and President Barack Obama is having 20 CEOs over to talk about how to tap that cash to boost jobs. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Democratic leader said Tuesday he will press ahead on a U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty, President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy priority, despite strong opposition from some Republican lawmakers. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to prohibit broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against Internet traffic flowing over their networks has an uncertain future with just lukewarm support from large phone and cable service providers and fierce opposition from Republicans. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hers was the face on the grainy negative TV ads that helped defeat scores of Democrats. His agenda, re-election chances and legacy are on the line. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A strong sense of pessimism shrouded the start of an economic summit of rich and emerging economies Thursday, with President Barack Obama and fellow world leaders arriving in Seoul sharply divided over currency and trade policies. (more)

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s Liquor Control Board is considering a ban on alcoholic energy drinks, a month after nine college students there were hospitalized after drinking the sugary beverages at an off-campus party. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans cast themselves as the anti-Obama and scored a blowout at the polls. Now their real work — repairing the party’s still-tattered image and earning voters’ trust — begins. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ballot initiative primarily funded by Texas oil companies seeking to suspend California’s landmark climate law has failed. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A day after Gov. Chris Christie killed the nation’s largest public works project, an underwater rail tunnel linking New York City to its populous New Jersey suburbs, he said Thursday that it’s time to focus on badly needed improvements to the state’s roads and bridges. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California GOP Senate challenger Carly Fiorina was sidelined Tuesday from the campaign trail in the final week of a close race to be treated for an infection associated with her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grasping to keep control of Congress, Democratic leaders are turning their backs on some of their staunchest supporters in the House and propping up stronger candidates who have routinely defied them on health care, climate change and other major issues. (more)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans might take control of Congress as they ride a wave of voter anger over deficit spending and big government, but experts who follow agriculture say they don’t expect deep cuts in subsidies to farmers who grow crops such as corn and soybeans. (more)

MIAMI (AP) — Three weeks before the election, anger over tainted home foreclosure documents is bursting into the battle for control of Congress, especially in hard-hit states such as Nevada and Florida. Democrats in tight races in the worst housing markets are pressing for a national moratorium, putting a reluctant White House on the spot. (more)

OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — McDonald’s denies reports it’s considering dropping health care coverage for some employees in response to a provision of the health care overhaul. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — With a midnight deadline looming, Israel’s prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to “show restraint” following the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown. (more)

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Blaming himself for coolness to his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is seeking to reintroduce the law to voters who don’t much like or understand it six months after he signed it. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are moving to strip Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski of her role as top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, further punishing her as she mounts a write-in bid to try to hold onto her seat. (more)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italian authorities seized €23 million ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe. (more)