Walmart to speed up delivery of fresh produce

Walmart Stores Inc., the world's largest produce seller, is trying to keep pace with rival grocery stores by freshening up its selection of fruits and vegetables.

Newest toys will look much like classic ones

NEW YORK - A digital Barbie vanity mirror that allows makeup experimentation without the mess. Customizable figurines mounted on spinning tops that battle in a portable arena. New Play Doh Plus that's fluffier and more malleable.

Americans waste $165 billion in food annually, report says

LOS ANGELES — Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40 percent of the country’s supply each year — a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

IRS says it's auditing more millionaires

Attention, millionaires, the watchful eye of the Internal Revenue Service is trained on you. During last year's tax season, 30 percent of multimillionaires were audited, the agency said. Overall, just 1.1 percent of individual income tax returns were checked.

Use of 'artisan' label spreads like Domino's, Wendy's sales

In the food world, "artisan" used to mean a meticulously handcrafted product, made in small batches.

FBI shuts online poker sites; founders indicted

NEW YORK - A thriving online poker industry catering to Americans but operating from abroad to evade U.S. gambling laws could be wiped out by criminal charges against top executives in the business.

Apartment dwellers can be green, too

LOS ANGELES - So you're a renter and you want to green your space, but your landlord won't splurge on solar panels.

US jobless rate hits 9.8%, the highest in 26 years

WASHINGTON — The U.S. unemployment rate edged closer to a milestone 10 percent in September, but that only began to measure the miserable reality confronting America's work force.