The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press. ...more

November 3, 2007

In a rare display of sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the Senate removed a $1 million earmark from an appropriations bill. ...more

October 29, 2007

A Senate committee Wednesday declined to add wind damage coverage to a bill to overhaul and renew the national flood insurance program. ...more

October 18, 2007

The recently announced deal between the NASDAQ and Borse Dubai brings back memories of 2006 deal, in which Dubai Ports World would have inherited six American ports in its takeover of the British firm P&O. ...more

October 8, 2007

A memorial of granite, stone and water was dedicated Friday at a burial ground where hundreds of slaves and other blacks were interred two centuries ago then forgotten as lower Manhattan expanded above their remains. ...more

October 6, 2007

Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy. ...more

September 27, 2007

Michael B. Mukasey, the retired federal judge from New York chosen by President Bush as his third attorney general, is nobody's idea of a movement conservative. ...more

September 18, 2007

President Bush confirmed yesterday his intention to nominate Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, to become the next attorney general of the United States. ...more

September 18, 2007

Homeowners struggling to deal with sharp increases in their adjustable mortgage payments got hit with a record number of foreclosure notices in the spring as the crisis in subprime lending intensified. ...more

September 7, 2007