Consumer alert: new health care markets on the way
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Buying your own health insurance will never be the same....

New lingo for consumers: health overhaul glossary
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law has spawned its own jargon. With the law finally about to take full effect, consumers might want to get familiar with some of the terms:...

Health insurance exchanges will transform market
Health insurance exchanges will change the way people buy coverage and will help millions of uninsured people get a private plan. Nearly 49 million people are uninsured in the United States, but the numbers vary dramatically by state....

Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy....

Fragile economy, other global woes dominated Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The fragile state of the world economy, coupled with the relentless turmoil in Syria and the rocky fallout from the Arab Spring, dominated discussions during this year's annual gathering of the global elite at Davos, leaving many participants uneasy about what lies ahead as they left for home Sunday....

Obama birth control mandates loosens lawsuits
NEW YORK (AP) -- The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul appear to be moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court....

Greek opinion polls show conservatives leading
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Three opinion polls, to be published in Greek Sunday papers, show conservative New Democracy, the main coalition government partner, slightly ahead of the opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA)....

A new market, black as ink, in NYC: printer toner
NEW YORK (AP) -- Manhattan hospital clerk Marque Gumbs was doing so well moonlighting as a peddler of stolen property that he drove a BMW, shopped at designer stores like Burberry and vacationed in Las Vegas and Mexico....

Powers of prophesy: Davos looks to the future
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?...

Iran formally snubs EU after oil, gas bans
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's oil ministry spokesman says all crude oil and gas exports have been banned to the 27-nation European Union, which has already imposed its own boycott on Iranian energy imports as part of sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program....