Authorities are investigating the motives of at least five men detained Wednesday after all passengers and crew aboard an Aeromexico plane from Cancún to Mexico City were freed.
At a hearing Wednesday on 'Hillary: The Movie,' conservative justices repeatedly asked whether limits on corporate contributions in federal elections are too broad and amount to censorship of free speech.
When President Obama travels to Wall Street on Monday, he will push for more government oversight to prevent a repeat of the excesses that caused the financial crisis, aides say.
Medicare stops paying for anti-rejection drugs after 36 months, one of several anomalies that many in Congress hope to cure with this year’s health care bill.
Kansas officials are pushing for federal buyouts for the residents of Treece, which is on land contaminated from mining, after buyouts emptied a nearby town.
AP - One year after Wall Street teetered on the brink of collapse, seven out of 10 Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to prevent another financial industry meltdown, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
AP - Pushing Congress to act on proposed financial regulations, President Barack Obama is going to the heart of Wall Street on the first anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse to outline changes needed to prevent a future crisis like the one that sent the global economy into a tailspin last year.
AP - Hospitals and drug makers like what they see in the early version of a health care plan that may evolve into the one that ends up on President Barack Obama's desk.
Rep. Joe Wilson said today he will not apologize again for yelling "You lie!" to President Obama during the president's speech to Congress about health care reform last week. House Democrats plan to censure Wilson if he refuses to apologize on the House floor this week. When asked today whether Obama had lied to Congress, Wilson responded: "I believe he was misstating the facts."
At least 640 people were arrested and 14 killed in fighting in Uganda's capital between government forces and loyalists of a traditional kingdom, police said Sunday.