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Retail sales in the United States rose 1.4% to $317.2 in July, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, led by purchases of automobiles and clothing.

The Transportation Security Administration has granted American Trucking Associations $100,000 from funds aimed at improving highway security to expand its Highway Watch program and continue developing a proposal for a national communications center to process information from truck drivers about unsafe and suspicious activity on the nation’s highways.

Ohio transportation officials said they were expecting the Federal Highway Administration to decide soon whether to fund a study that could help get heavy trucks back onto the state’s turnpike and off secondary highways.

Inventories at U.S. businesses rose in June for the first time in three months as retailers replenished supplies, the Commerce Department reported..

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DOT Selects Carriers for Ecuador Cargo Service • U.S. July Import Prices Rise 0.5% • Venezuela Oil Minister Sees Prices Staying High • MAN Reports Improvement at Truck Unit • And more...

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday voted to keep the benchmark U.S. interest rate unchanged, encouraged by signs that the lowest borrowing costs in 45 years may be helping the economic expansion to accelerate.

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President Bush late Monday selected Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to succeed Christie Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The national average price of diesel fuel rose 3.9 cents a gallon to $1.492, the Department of Energy reported Monday.