The Senate passed by 59-39 the most sweeping changes in government regulation of the nation's financial institutions since the Great Depression, including strong new consumer and investor protections and …
WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, announced his resignation Friday after months of friction and repeated duels with White House officials. …
When natural resource industry giants get hit with worker safety and environmental violations, they open their checkbook, pay a fine, and go on operating as per usual. …
Three Republican senators from the Northeast join majority Democrats to advance a financial reform bill to tighten regulation of Wall Street. Senators voted 60 to 40 Thursday to end …
Johannesburg, South Africa - As South Africa ramps up a high-profile campaign to test 15 million people for HIV in the next year, experts are questioning whether the country’s …
The recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L.111-148, promises to make far-reaching changes to our current health care system. But the law’s benefits may go well beyond …
Housing foreclosure is ebbing and flowing across the US like the oil cloud in the Gulf of Mexico, shifting and poisoning as it goes about silently attacking us and …
Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena, Louisiana, said he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing revenge against the town's black community. At 4:00 …
As the sheriff’s truck followed our van several blocks through Phoenix, I kept thinking what the sight of that vehicle would mean for Silvia or Esperanza or Alejandra or …
Uxbridge, Canada - The decades-long war in Canada's northwoods appears to be over. Environmental groups and Canadian logging companies linked arms Tuesday morning and agreed to work together to …