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Stocks are booming; the Dow Jones soared past 11,000; the very wealthy are bursting from their financial seams. Meanwhile, mass unemployment continues, with 95,000 more jobs - mostly teachers …

Kabul, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the international military coalition in Afghanistan, launched an investigation into the failed weekend rescue attempt of British aid …

Washington - If the 2010 campaign signals that the dam on political giving has burst, Missouri is already awash in campaign cash. Special interest groups have already spent more …

“If it gets any worse,” said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, “we're not going to survive.” Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We are in a broiling “tent” …

Washington - When the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund got under way this week, the agenda ranged from ongoing talks about “currency wars” between …

President Obama made a big point during his campaign of running against the old style of politics. He promised to bring a new atmosphere of bipartisan cooperation and openness …

Washington - The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it. This is a strange development. President Obama, after all, has been …

Frank Sinatra once said that if he could make it in New York, he could make it anywhere. Thanks to new drilling rules, environmentalists can now say the same …

Memo to Christine O'Donnell, the Sarah Palin of 2010, target of a thousand vulgar jokes on the talk shows, now desperately taking out ads in the state of Delaware, …

Washington - Henry Paulson has received widespread acclaim for his bare-knuckled decision-making as the treasury secretary at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, but former federal regulators say …