Speaking at Harvard, the Fed chairman also said price pressures today were not as bad as those in the 1970s.

Seven former health secretaries protested menthol’s special treatment in a tobacco bill pending in Congress.

Verizon Communications is in talks to buy Alltel, the cellphone service provider taken private last May, a person briefed on the matter said.

Seven former health secretaries joined together on Wednesday to protest menthol’s special treatment in a tobacco bill pending in Congress.

Speaking at Harvard, the Fed chairman also said price pressures today were not as bad as those in the 1970s.

Monsanto pledged to develop seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030 and would require 30 percent less water, land and energy to grow.

After waging an aggressive public relations campaign against Wal-Mart for three years, the company’s union-backed critics, who once vowed never to let up, are lowering their pitchforks.

Filmmakers are being lured by a wave of new state tax credits as the battle to entice Hollywood to make films on location in those states heats up.

The chairman of the Federal Reserve told graduating seniors that expanding education opportunities would help curb the economic inequality that has increased considerably in the last 30 years.

The increases are a highly unpopular measure that could further weaken both governments already made fragile by recent electoral setbacks.