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Barack Obama and John McCain on Monday stepped up their increasingly tetchy exchange over high petrol prices, with Mr Obama accusing his rival of being in the "pocket of big oil" and Mr McCain accusing his ...

Homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers

The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is quickly building.

Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, showed that Mr. Hamdan offered “critical details” to American forces

GUANTANAMO BAY , Cuba - Secret evidence at the war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan , Osama bin Laden 's driver, showed that Mr.

The FBI’s prime suspect in the October 2001 anthrax letters case died last week in an apparent suicide. Bruce Ivins was an elite government scientist at the biodefense research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He was among the nation’s top experts on the military use of anthrax. But many of his colleagues have expressed deep skepticism over the FBI’s claims. We speak to anthrax expert Dr. Meryl Nass and blogger Glenn Greenwald.

Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.

Temperatures across the Southern Plains were expected to be in triple digits on Monday, continuing a long stretch over recent weeks that have led to several heat-related deaths.

"The regulators should investigate themselves for bailing out Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N), the creditors of Bear Stearns and the financial system with new lending facilities. They have swapped U.S. Treasury bonds for toxic securities," he told Barron's. "It is privatizing the gains and profits, and socializing the losses as usual. This is socialism for Wall Street and the rich."

The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is quickly building.

As an FBI investigation increasingly focused on him as a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Fort Detrick scientist Bruce E. Ivins enjoyed a security clearance that allowed him to work in the facility's most dangerous laboratories, to handle deadly biological agents, and to take part in broad discussions about the Pentagon's defenses against germ warfare.

WASHINGTON D.C. & SACRAMENTO, Cal. - The Ralph Nader campaign has announced Ralph Nader and his vice presidential running mate, Matt Gonzalez clinched the California Peace and Freedom Party nomination.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady on Tuesday, acknowledging financial conditions remain strained, but making clear it is still worried about inflation despite a recent pullback in energy prices.

The Democratic delegations from Michigan and Florida should be fully seated when Democrats hold their national convention later this month in Denver, said the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen.

Many leases for energy exploration sit unused, and more natural gas drilling hasn't brought prices down.

With the advent of $4-a-gallon gasoline has come a bruising debate in Congress over whether to intensify efforts to drill on federal lands, including part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. But while those hoping to lower prices at the pump are clamoring for new oil, most new onshore drilling in the past seven years has produced natural gas, not oil.

Blue patrol boats crisscross the swimming areas of beaches here with their huge nets skimming the water's surface.

A verdict awaits Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, this week in a trial seen as a test of the controversial military tribunals set up by the US administration to try suspects in the "war on terror."

Forecasters say a tropical storm warning has been issued for parts of the Louisiana coast as a tropical depression formed in the Gulf of Mexico.

What happened next set the stage for a continuing legal battle with nationwide repercussions: Mr. Jiménez was deported — not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and “forcibly returned him to his home country,” as one hospital administrator described it.

The Democratic-controlled Congress is working to overcome years of neglect by the Bush administration of agencies intended to safeguard the health of the public, especially children, a leading Democrat said ...

A sticker for a Ford F-150 truck. Oddly, the sticker includes an estimated annual fuel cost based on gasoline at $2.80 a gallon.

The political landscape is littered with squandered opportunities to avert the $4-a-gallon gasoline mess we find ourselves in now.