No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti are planned, federal immigration officials said Friday, an encouraging sign to advocates who say the Caribbean country needs more time to recover before it can deal with fresh arrivals. ...more

September 20, 2008

A government watchdog said Wednesday that federal officials approved a new type of small jet despite problems with the plane's design and production, and overruled safety concerns. ...more

September 18, 2008

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 26 people said they want to review cell phone records to determine whether an engineer blamed for running a stop signal before the crash may have been text messaging at the time. ...more

September 16, 2008

With Wall Street engulfed in crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission is planning measures to rein in aggressive forms of short-selling that were blamed in part for the demise of Lehman Brothers and which some fear could be turned against other vulnerable companies. ...more

September 16, 2008

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 25 people said Sunday that they were looking into a report that an engineer blamed for running a stop signal before the crash may have been text messaging around the same time. ...more

September 15, 2008

Even though Hurricane Gustav did not wreak the destruction expected when it struck the Gulf Coast on Monday, officials said Tuesday that they were not ready to allow many of the 1.9 million Louisiana residents who had evacuated to return. ...more

September 3, 2008

Inside the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday, no one needed to be told that after three years of cramming, test time had finally come. ...more

September 1, 2008

Michael Tringali, indicted in July along with former partner Neil Mohamed Husani and two other men on federal charges that they orchestrated an $82.8 million scheme to defraud seven banks on Florida's west coast, is seeking a federal judge's permission to travel to Atlanta as needed for business. ...more

August 29, 2008

The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. ...more

August 27, 2008

Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system. ...more

August 21, 2008