The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with more than $80,000 in income a year, administration officials said Thursday. ...more

October 5, 2007

Mexico's Senate has approved broad electoral reform that would ban political parties from paying for television and radio ads and open the way for independent candidates to run for public office. ...more

September 14, 2007

U.S.-bound trucks from Mexico hit a roadblock in Washington on Tuesday as senators stymied Bush administration plans to allow Mexican 18-wheelers to begin traveling freely into the United States as part of a 13-year-old trade agreement. ...more

September 12, 2007