Updated 2:11 p.m.
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. took a key step toward its downsizing on Tuesday, striking a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer, while also revealing that it has potential buyers for its Saturn and Saab brands.
Updated 11:28 a.m.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Power Co. customers are going to see a slight reduction in rates, starting next week.
Updated 11:28 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The Senate took a step Tuesday toward giving the government some controls over the tobacco industry, bolstering the chances that a long-sought goal of anti-smoking advocates will finally be realized.
Updated 11:28 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The Senate's top Democrat praised federal judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday as an extraordinarily well-qualified Supreme Court nominee whose background as an 'underdog' appeals to Americans.
Updated 11:28 a.m.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's Kim Jong Il has anointed his 26-year-old son — said to be competitive, proficient in English and a heavy drinker — as the next leader of the communist state, news reports said Tuesday.
Updated 11:28 a.m.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian military pilots spotted an airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday as they hunted for a missing Air France passenger jet that carried 228 people. Brazil's Navy said three commercial ships in the area were joining the search.
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