Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday that clears the way for another 13 weeks of benefits for Wisconsin's unemployed.

Time and again during his presidential campaign, Barack Obama was unequivocal: "We are going to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans."

The nation's third-largest health insurance company is the latest to leave the individual policy market in Indiana in another sign of diminishing competition to benefit consumers who purchase policies through a state insurance exchange under the federal health care overhaul.

What relief rally? Hope that the stock market would surge on news of Washington's debt ceiling deal has given way to pessimism.