Search results for

Dozens of popular high-end pharmaceuticals — from Lipitor to Nexium to Plavix — are going off-patent in the coming months and years. That will lead to a big drop in drug costs. But analysts say that could be offset by a price increase in other areas.

The president traveled Monday to the heart of Wall Street to outline proposed changes designed to prevent a crisis like the one that sent the global economy into a tailspin a year ago.

A world-record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot has lottery players lining up for tickets early Friday and many wondering if there's any way to guarantee becoming an overnight multimillionaire.

There are already more than 200 electric only vehicles on San Diego's roads, and that number is expected to increase to 2,000 by December.

Key portions of the Kyoto Protocol are set to expire at the end of 2012. But many of the world's major greenhouse gas emitters have already set national targets to reduce emissions, and they're forging their own initiatives to meet those goals.

With baby boomers about to turn 65, homebuilders see a big market for a building concept called universal design. It means houses are designed so owners can stay as they grow old -- even if they develop physical limitations. The trick is making them beautiful enough that no one suspects they're meant for seniors.

The story of America's rise on the global art scene has mostly taken place in New York — but now Los Angeles wants in on the narrative. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented artistic collaboration with one grand theme in mind: the birth of the L.A. art scene from 1945 to 1980.

For years, Los Angeles police have arrested drug dealers who prey on the homeless on Skid Row, only to see many of them right back on the streets because of overcrowded prisons. But a proposed new legal strategy aims to lock up Skid Row drug dealers for at least six months. The injunction, which still has to be approved by a judge, targets 80 well-known dealers -- and it's the first time the LAPD is going after dealers by name.

The Treasury Department is in talks with AIG to find ways to make the insurance giant independent again after bailing it out two years ago. But extricating the government from AIG is a complex and delicate task. One problem: The company still owes the Fed and Treasury some $100 billion.

One of the arguments made by supporters of Prop. 19 is that regulating it will reduce drug cartel violence. Officials on both sides of the border doubt whether it would have a significant impact.