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Last month, a popular reform to grant the California Insurance Commission the power to review and regulate proposed insurance rate hikes died a quick death in the state Senate. …

While there are many similarities between our time and the Great Depression, there is a crucial difference: In the late 1930s, the United States produced over one-third of the …

The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn New York University Press New York and London 2011 "There …

A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including …

Washington - With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised …

The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments. Police …

The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses after two highjacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the center, in New York on September 11, 2001. (Photo: …

Valletta, Malta - With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in ruins and Qaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so …

Ours is a truly complex world — with interlocking systems of finance and debt, globalized supply chains for commodities and products, highly specialized social roles and professions, and multiple …

This week, September 6-10, may prove one of the most volatile economically and financially since the global banking panic of September 2008 - both in the US and worldwide. …