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By Andrew Taylor |
May 17, 2012
Democrats controlling the Senate rejected for the second year in a row Wednesday a budget plan passed by House Republicans.
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By Sam Hananel |
April 23, 2012
The Senate began debate Monday on a Republican effort to overturn new labor regulations that make it easier and quicker for unions to hold workplace elections. The White House immediately threatened to veto it.
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By David Crary |
March 3, 2012
Ever eager to provoke, Rush Limbaugh has now succeeded into drawing the White House into a skirmish. The spark: Limbaugh telling his talk show fans that a law student was a "slut" for her testimony to Congress about the need for birth control coverage.
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By Steve LeBlanc |
February 15, 2012
The debate over the line between religious freedom and federal health care mandates has made its way into Massachusetts' closely watched U.S. Senate race, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown accusing his chief Democratic rival of wanting to "dictate to religious people about what they should believe."
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By DAVID K. RANDALL, AP Business Writer, MATTHEW CRAFT,AP Business Writer |
November 1, 2011
A wave of selling swept Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after the prime minister of Greece said he would let its people vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue the Greek economy.
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By Steve LeBlanc |
October 11, 2011
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown swept into office riding a wave of frustration with President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul and his handling of a faltering economy — a win that was also a banner victory for a nascent tea party.
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By Steve LeBlanc |
October 11, 2011
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown swept into office riding a wave of frustration with President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul and his handling of a faltering economy — a win that was also a banner victory for a nascent tea party. Now, as he gears up for a...
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
October 5, 2011
Medicare's popular prescription program has an unsavory underside. It's an easy target for drug abusers seeking to feed their own addictions or sell painkillers for profit, congressional investigators said in a report released Tuesday.
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By Stan Choe |
August 18, 2011
Stocks plunged worldwide Thursday as more signs of economic weakness revived investors' fears of another recession. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 400 points in a return to the wild swings in the market last week.
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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
August 3, 2011
More Americans close to or beyond retirement age are staying in the work force.
