WASHINGTON - The American economy shifted to a higher gear in the spring, growing at its fastest pace in nearly a year as foreign buyers snapped up U.S. exports and tax rebates spurred shoppers at home.

This major street in a Cairo suburb is popular with foreign businesses, including McDonald’s and Avis car rental company (shown in this picture). Major U.S. companies feel they are on profitable ground in Egypt and business is good, by all accounts.

Even if the slower-growing national economy is not officially in recession, one nationally known economics research firm says San Luis Obispo County is because of its rising unemployment. And conditions aren’t expected to improve appreciably anytime so

For President-elect Barack Obama's plans — which call for millions of new green jobs — to work out, dozens of green tech companies will need to rapidly scale up. The most promising, like the biofuel-making synthetic biology startup Amyris, are marchi

WASHINGTON — The economy shifted to a higher gear in the spring, growing at its fastest pace in nearly a year as foreign buyers snapped up U.S. exports and tax rebates spurred shoppers at home. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross dome