U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of San Francisco ruled this week that the government has had enough time already to make public a database from insurance companies and junkyards…
In recent years, many states have adopted new laws allowing parents to abandon infants in safe places such as hospitals and fire stations. The idea was to protect babies and…
As officials in the Bush administration put on a full-court press this week to persuade Congress to enact emergency financial rescue legislation at a price tag…
After several days of high-level lobbying for emergency legislation allowing the federal government to spend some $700 billion to shore up the nation’s struggling economy, an agreement reportedly was reached…
Updated: Despite warnings that the alternative is an economic tailspin, as well as an agreement today by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to limit top executive pay as a…
With the federal government apparently on the verge of a major regulatory overhaul of the nation’s financial institutions, as part of an effort to prevent an economic debacle, the upsurge…
Congressional leaders are hesitating about whether to approve a pricey emergency plan by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to spend some $700 billion to…
In what a columnist for U.S. News & World Report describes as a “loony claim,” a former press secretary for Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah…
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