The Bush administration said Wednesday it won't finish implementing new vehicle fuel-efficiency rules, leaving the issue to the incoming Obama administration.

The small businesses sector in December suffered its largest one-month jobs decline in at least a decade, according to an employment report by payroll processor ADP, which estimates that small companies shed ...

President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that overhauling Social Security and Medicare would be "a central part" of his administration's efforts to contain federal spending, signaling for the first time that ...

Gender warriors are not wasting any time in 2009. Two pieces of falsely titled "gender equity" legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, are set to be the first votes of the ...

In an announcement that launched a thousand unprintable puns, adult-entertainment moguls Larry Flynt and Joe Francis said Wednesday that they are asking Washington for a $5 billion federal bailout, claiming ...

A New York doctor filing for divorce wants his wife to return the kidney he gave to her in exchange for his broken heart.

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle pledged on Thursday to aggressively pursue healthcare reform and restore confidence in federal health agencies as he made his case to become President-elect Barack ...

Bernard Madoff , the disgraced Wall Street trader accused of conning clients out of $50bn , had $173m in signed cheques on his office desk when he was arrested, which prosecutors say shows he sought to keep ...

President-elect Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to pass a huge economic stimulus package as quickly as possible, warning that inaction could bring high unemployment and a lingering recession for years.

Surrounded by cheering supporters, Republican Norm Coleman, who received 225 fewer votes than DFLer Al Franken in the U.S. Senate recount, vowed Tuesday to wage a court battle to challenge the outcome.

On Christmas Eve, I appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming economic recovery package, only to be told that FDR's New Deal "prolonged the Great Depression" . This is the latest consevative talking point - ...

The current economic crisis has waged a particularly severe attack on the Black middle-class in the United States, experts say.

The adage that when America sneezes, Black America catches a cold has held true, making it almost inevitable that African Americans would bear the brunt of the country's financial woes, economists say.

Fed and European Central Bank inject $154 billion into financial system. $38 8/10/07: Fed injects another $38 billion.

Regulation is everywhere. The extraordinary financial collapse of recent months has been commonly described as a testament to the failure of deregulation.

The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States - most of them ...

The US private sector shed 693,000 jobs in December, according to a closely watched survey of business employment published on Wednesday.