Sen. Barack Obama says he is set for a presidential debate tonight at the University of Mississippi, the first of three 90-minute debates he is scheduled to have with Sen. John McCain. ...more

September 26, 2008

President Bush's nominees to be the next U.S. attorney for Florida's Middle District and to fill a U.S. district judgeship for the area won approval Thursday from the Senate Judiciary Committee. ...more

September 26, 2008

President Bush's nominees to be the next U.S. attorney for Florida's Middle District and to fill a U.S. district judgeship for the area won approval Thursday from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. ...more

September 25, 2008

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the worsening financial crisis could prove a major weight on U.S. business growth and pledged to "act as needed" to brace the wobbly economy. ...more

September 24, 2008

As Congress hashes out the details of the mortgage bailout plan, another wave of problem loans will soon come crashing down, especially in Florida. ...more

September 24, 2008

Financial markets extended their declines Tuesday, with the Dow falling more than 150 points, as investors worried that lawmakers were beginning to doubt the necessity of a broad government bailout for financial institutions as a way to revive ailing credit markets. ...more

September 24, 2008

Nothing But Socialism Regarding the recent historical bailout by the U.S. government of private corporations: ...more

September 24, 2008

Arriving in Pinellas County to prepare for Friday's first presidential debate, Barack Obama stopped at a Clearwater pub to chat up lunchgoers, then held a news conference to announce principles he said must be included in the nation's Wall Street bailout. ...more

September 24, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

September 23, 2008

As Congress hashes out the details of the mortgage bailout plan, another wave of problem loans will soon come crashing down, especially in Florida. Nearly $100 billion worth of loans are deemed at risk for foreclosure over the next two years nationwide as borrowers with adjustable rate loans, called option-ARMs, see rates adjust, some ahead of schedule, according to a report released this month by Fitch Ratings. ...more

September 23, 2008