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Faced with a wide range of signs warning of an economic slowdown, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce Wednesday that it will extend a controversial bond-buying program even …

The U.S. Marine Corps buried a massive stockpile of Agent Orange at the Futenma air station in Okinawa, seriously sickening the base's former head of maintenance and potentially contaminating …

Government payrolls grew in the early part of the recovery, largely because of federal stimulus measures. But since its postrecession peak in April 2009 (not counting temporary Census hiring), …

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday itu2019d extend a controversial bond-buying program known as Operation Twist to help spark economic activity but gave only vague guidance about what kind of …

Too many black and Latino men were being arrested because, after being stopped by the police, they were forced to empty their pockets.

Aversion to the whole of idea of super PACs from many Democrats and the left diminished a willingness to give large sums to the Obama re-election effort. But that …

The American dream is a myth. There is less equality of opportunity in the United States today than there is in Europe u2013 or, indeed, in any advanced industrial …

Households earning more than $1 million a year could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.

When youth who live on the streets and work in the sex trade or other informal economies are victimized or abused, often the institutions that are supposed to help …

Wall Street canu2019t have it both ways u2013 too big to fail, and also able to make wild bets anywhere around the world.