The top congressional watchdog overseeing the nation's financial bailout says she wouldn't buy a winter coat without a spending plan. And she says she's frustrated by the Treasury Department's refusal to explain how it is doling out billions in taxp
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Foreign carmakers are enlisting the help of GOP senators from states in the South to break the union.The foreign nonunion auto companies located in the South have a plan to reduce wages and benefits at their factories in the United States. And to do
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Has President Bush kept America safe? The only conclusion supported by the facts at our disposal is no. Bush yesterday tried once again to take credit for the absence of a major terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001..
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New power plants will not be required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency has ruled.
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strong case for bringing criminal chargesMMost Americans have long known that the horrors of Abu Ghraib were not the work of a few low-ranking sociopaths. All but President Bush's most unquestioning supporters recognized the chain of unprincipled de
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The Big Three automakers are now two troubled companies getting government help to survive and one - the Ford Motor Company - trying to make it on its own.
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A growing number of Americans are giving up their dogs and cats to animal shelters as the emotional bonds between people and pets get tested by the economy.
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For decades after its founding in 1935, the United Auto Workers stood as a powerful model for the American labor movement, an influential organization that historians credit with uplifting living standards for all working Americans. But with the ann
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Secret Agent Chicago stylePamela Davis, blond suburban mother of three, was told that her bra would be the best place to wear the wire that kick-started a long investigation into Chicago graft and that ultimately caught the governor of ...
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the man who oversees $200 billion of China's $2 trillion in dollar holdingsChina has financed much of their nation's public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agreed on the peril of borrowing s
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A vigilante shot Donnell Herrington twice shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans.
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Madoff has sown the seeds of suspicion everywhere.The news of Bernard Madoff's $50 billion fraud has hit the investor/401 class as nothing else--not the fall of Lehman Brothers, not the death of Bear Stearns, nor the string of insolvency announcemen
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As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will ...
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I wrote about Bristol Palin's soon-to-be mother-in-law earlier. Sherry Johnston (pictured) was arrested on drug charges. More details have emerged about the arrest, including the fact that it was oxycontin, rather than the expected meth, that she wa
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The United States is to deploy up to 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan by next summer, doubling its military presence in the country.
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