The House Financial Services Committee has been a magnet for money from Wall Street, but the sweeping new regulations approved by the Senate are trying that relationship.
The deficit crisis that threatens the euro — along with an aging population and low growth — has undermined the sustainability of Europe’s standard of social welfare.
When the Haitian police stormed a prison to quell a riot after the earthquake, they fatally shot at least 12 detainees, a New York Times investigation found.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that she would be pushing the Chinese for a "more balanced economic relationship" with the U.S. in upcoming economic and strategic talks in Beijing.
AP - Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew up — the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress.
AP - Thailand's leader said Sunday that new elections can be considered only after violence and protests by anti-government activists end completely, after two months of turmoil left at least 85 people dead and deeply divided the country.
The family of a Los Angeles woman killed in Cancun, Mexico, last month said their "greatest fears about the investigation" into her death have been realized.
Rescue teams worked into the night after an Air India plane overshot a runway in southern India. The crash killed 158 people; eight passengers survived.
A rescue worker could hear the screams -- "Save me! Save me!" -- from the wreckage of Air India Flight IX-812, but the flames were too intense for victims to be saved.