Government efforts to provide easier credit to consumers and help housing finance companies could push mortgage rates "well below 4 percent," a federal regulator said Wednesday. ...more

December 11, 2008

WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday. ...more

October 7, 2008

WASHINGTON Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee kept a tight grip on their contradictory accounts of illegal drug use in a dramatic showdown Wednesday before a congressional panel whose 40 Democrats and Republicans seemed to line up and take sides on a partisan basis. ...more

February 14, 2008

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has been pushing it since he was elected state insurance commissioner more than a decade ago, and Gov.Charlie Crist pounded the Washington pavement earlier this year hoping to persuade lawmakers a national disaster fund is necessary to protect the home front. ...more

October 20, 2007

What does global warming have to do with global peace? The globe may find out sooner than we think, experts say. ...more

October 13, 2007