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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a plastic straw ban in San Francisco (all times local): 4:05 p.m. San Francisco supervisors have unanimously approved a ban on plastic straws and takeout containers treated with fluorinated...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former coal executive Don Blankenship has filed paperwork to run in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race as the Constitution Party’s nominee. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Blankenship filed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting chief of the Environmental Protection Agency says there should be a single national standard for fuel efficiency by cars and trucks, speaking out as a showdown looms with California and other states....

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. plans to expand manufacturing in Michigan and add 450 jobs under an incentives deal approved Tuesday by the state’s economic development arm. The company is expected to spend...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to repeal a tax on some medical devices that has helped finance President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Revoking the 2.3 percent tax has been a longtime goal for Republicans and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lululemon named Calvin McDonald as CEO Tuesday, more than five months after the maker of yoga tights said its previous chief executive resigned for falling short of the company’s standards of conduct....

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The board that licenses private security firms in North Dakota implored a judge on Tuesday to reconsider his decision not to ban from the state a North Carolina-based company hired by the developer of the...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s economy contracted 5.8 percent in May compared to the same period a year ago, the official INDEC statistics agency said Tuesday, raising concerns the country could fall into...