President-elect Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he is creating a new high-level position to wring waste and inefficiencies out of government, as part of a broader push to bring more discipline to federal spending. ...more

January 8, 2009

Angela Mulchandami was relieved to see her mother made it aboard a flight from Mumbai, India, to Atlanta on Thursday morning. ...more

November 28, 2008

His company's gadgets are barely known abroad. But Aigo Chief Executive Feng Jun, a boyishly exuberant walking advertisement for the fast-growing Chinese electronics maker, is out to change that. ...more

August 5, 2008

Even after we agreed to accept more risk in our policies, big insurance not only reneged on their promise to lower rates for Floridians, they continued to increase them. ...more

February 4, 2008

Florida officials want copies of secret corporate papers held by Allstate Insurance Co. to see if unfair practices were used to adversely affect consumers. Allstate is fighting to keep the papers secret, but we hope citizens in Florida, and elsewhere, soon will learn about potentially unsavory tactics for the company to pay out as little as possible while maximizing profits. ...more

January 24, 2008

Behind the fight between Florida's insurance commissioner and Allstate Insurance Co. is a mystery that could have come from a John Grisham novel. ...more

January 23, 2008

Joe Daniels' voice still catches when he recalls watching people jump from the World Trade Center's north tower on Sept. 11, 2001. After another plane hit the second tower, he ran frantically with others to get out of the area. ...more

December 10, 2007