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LOS ANGELES – Alcoa Inc. (AA), the world’s largest aluminum producer, Wednesday said it has signed a long-term deal worth nearly $2 billion in revenues to provide European aircraft manufacturer Airbus with high-performance sheet and plate products. Alcoa said the deal, which runs through December 2011, covers aircraft including the …

RAPID CITY, S.D. – John Bolton’s (search) nomination to the United Nations may not seem to have much to do with a proposed base closing in South Dakota, but the state’s junior senator is seemingly drawing a connection in order to keep a promise to voters who sent him to …

CHICAGO – Internet services company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is looking to boost its business in the Internet’s next big growth area: voice communications. The largest U.S. provider of Web e-mail services, Yahoo already has deals with several landline and wireless telephone companies, including SBC Communications (SBC), Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) …