Shockingly poor financial management at General Motors and Chrysler weakened their case for a federal bailout, but officials feared letting them collapse, the former head of a government auto task force said Wednesday. ...more

October 21, 2009

131,000 Number of U.S. troops in Iraq on July 31 170,000 Number of U.S. troops in Iraq in October 2007, the peak of the troop buildup ...more

August 3, 2009

He's at the start of his first term, riding high in public approval ratings, supported by Congress' Democratic leaders and fresh out of the gate with legislative victories. ...more

February 24, 2009

William Potts calls himself the "Homesick Hijacker." U.S. authorities have another name for him: fugitive harbored by an enemy government — one of dozens of Americans hiding in communist Cuba. ...more

January 18, 2009

The nation's great migration south and west is slowing, thanks to a housing crisis that is making it hard for many to move. ...more

December 22, 2008

The State Department's list of "state sponsors of terrorism" is one of the biggest farces of U.S. foreign policy. Started in 1979 for nations designated by the Secretary of State "to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism," the rationale behind the list is far from any high moral purpose to rid the world of terrorism. ...more

November 17, 2008

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden charged Thursday during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania that John McCain's tax proposals for health insurance would be "the largest tax increase in the history of America for the middle class." He was wrong. ...more

September 26, 2008

A group of conservative Republicans in the House proposed a financial rescue package of tax breaks and a new government-sponsored insurance program for mortgage-backed securities Thursday as an alternative to President Bush's proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. ...more

September 26, 2008

The wave of immigrants entering the United States slowed dramatically last year as the economy faltered and the government stepped up enforcement of immigration laws. ...more

September 23, 2008

More children than ever are taking algebra in eighth grade but they are not necessarily learning more math, private researchers report. ...more

September 22, 2008