Rep. Barney Frank charged Monday that a decision by financially strapped insurance giant AIG to pay millions in executive bonuses amounts to "rewarding incompetence." ...more

March 16, 2009

With job losses soaring nationwide, Senate Democrats reached agreement with a small group of Republicans Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's plan for combatting the worst recession in decades. ...more

February 6, 2009

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals. ...more

December 22, 2008

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals. ...more

December 21, 2008

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is being treated for brain cancer, has been taken to a hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill. ...more

September 26, 2008

WASHINGTON - President Bush told Congress Friday it must "rise to the occasion" and pass legislation bailing out the struggling financial system, and leading lawmakers arranged to resume difficult negotiations. ...more

September 26, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy took the helm of his sailboat "Mya" on Monday and rode a stiff southern wind from Nantucket, Mass., back to Hyannis in a regatta just a week after undergoing a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer. ...more

May 27, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor. ...more

May 22, 2008

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts Democrat and head of the Kennedy family, has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said Tuesday. ...more

May 21, 2008

Edward Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a seizure Saturday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and was rushed by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital officials said. ...more

May 18, 2008