June 4, 2010  |   Job seekers arrive for the Anaheim/Orange County Job Fair in California earlier this week. Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. Employers added 431,000 workers to their payrolls in May, the Labor Department said Friday, but the job growth was fueled...

June 3, 2010  |   A contract worker scoops up oil that washed ashore Wednesday on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Updated 3:00 p.m. ET | The Interior Department says that it has not extended its moratorium...

June 2, 2010  |   In this May 31 photo from NASA, the oil slick is seen off the coast of Louisiana with a portion flowing south from the accident site. Photo by NASA via Getty Images. As BP presses ahead Wednesday with its...

June 1, 2010  |   Federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the massive Gulf Coast oil leak and the deadly rig explosion that caused it, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon. Holder announced the probes in New Orleans after spending...

June 1, 2010  |   A militant from the Palestinian Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine jumps over burning tires during a demonstration in Ain al-Helweh refugee camp near the Lebanese city of Sidon. Photo by Mahmoud Zayat/AFP/Getty Images. International criticism against an...

May 28, 2010  |   A shrimp boat outfitted with oil booms makes its way to port Thursday near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. BP's latest effort to end the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico showed signs of progress...

May 27, 2010  |   Attention has shifted from the financial troubles in Greece to other troubled euro zone countries. Debt concerns in countries such as Spain, Italy, and Britain continue to jitter global markets, even as those countries consider new austerity measures to...

May 27, 2010  |   Oil settles in the marsh area of Blind Bay, Louisiana. Win McNamee/Getty Images. BP is expected to know as early as Thursday afternoon whether its latest effort to plug the five-week-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has...

May 26, 2010  |   Bags of oil collected from the beach await pickup Tuesday at Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. If all goes according to plan, BP on Wednesday will attempt to plug the leak that has been gushing oil...

May 25, 2010  |   Residents of Chalmette, Louisiana, attend a discussion Monday with parish officials and a BP representative on the oil spill clean up efforts. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images. The Environmental Protection Agency won't call on BP to stop using chemical...

May 24, 2010  |   Updated 4:45 pm ET The Coast Guard admiral coordinating the federal response to the Gulf Coast oil spill said Monday it would not make sense for the government to take over control of the accident from BP. "To push BP...

May 24, 2010  |   A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Efforts to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a step backward over the weekend. On...

May 21, 2010  |   Legislators and policymakers alike are reacting to the Senate's move on Thursday to approve the most sweeping rewrite of financial regulation since the Great Depression, legislation designed to shield the economy from repeating the crisis that since 2008 has left...

May 21, 2010  |   UPDATE: 1:27 a.m. ET Friday BP has posted a new live stream shown below. This stream is intermittent, and requires Windows Media Player. (updated 6/8/2010 with Ustream.tv feed of the spill.) Webcam chat at Ustream The video below is an...

May 19, 2010  |   President Barack Obama renewed his support for comprehensive immigration reform Wednesday but said he needs help from Republicans in Congress to fix a "broken" system along the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in Washington for a state...

May 19, 2010  |   A Red Shirt protester is detained by Thai police Wednesday inside the Red Shirt protest camp in Bangkok. Photo by Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images. Leaders from Thailand's Red Shirt protest movement surrendered to police Wednesday, yet that was not enough...

May 18, 2010  |   Afghan policemen stand guard near the site of Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that struck a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul...

May 17, 2010  |   Iran on Monday announced plans to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey, an unexpected agreement that could stifle U.S. efforts to secure a new round of international sanctions against Tehran. Under the agreement, brokered by Brazil and Turkey,...

May 17, 2010  |   The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that juveniles cannot be given life-sentences with no chance of parole for crimes other than murder. In a 5-4 ruling, the High Court said the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment ensures...

May 17, 2010  |   BP took a significant step forward Sunday in the effort to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, connecting a mile-long tube from a ship to the damaged pipeline some 5,000 feet below water. Speaking on NBC's "Today"...

May 14, 2010  |   Oil spill workers connect sections of oil booms to protect marshlands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it...

May 13, 2010  |   Officials from BP said Wednesday they may be closer to stopping the underwater oil leak that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month. BP officials told the New York Times that engineers have drafted plans...

May 12, 2010  |   With costs mounting in the effort to contain the Gulf Coast oil leak, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will move to raise the cap on damages that the government can collect from oil companies during a spill. Administration officials...

May 12, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet at the State Department on Tuesday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday for talks...

May 11, 2010  |   Prime Minister David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. UPDATED -- 4:35 pm ET David Cameron became Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday, returning his Conservative party to power after...

May 11, 2010  |   Pope Benedict XVI speaks with reporters about the abuse scandal on his way to Portugal on Tuesday. Photo by Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images. Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday issued his strongest words to date about the abuse scandal that has...

May 11, 2010  |   Two oil booms surround one of the New Harbor Islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. Executives from the three companies tied to the Gulf Coast oil spill head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Lawmakers...

May 10, 2010  |   Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces his resignation outside No. 10 Downing St. on Monday. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation on Monday, just four days after his Labor Party placed a distant...

May 10, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f54qe9c',482,304,""); //--><!]]> President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds,"...

May 10, 2010  |   Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate...

May 7, 2010  |   Employers added 290,000 jobs in April -- the biggest gain in four years -- but the nation's unemployment rate ticked up as thousands of Americans rejoined the labor force. The April gain topped the expectations of most analysts and followed...

May 6, 2010  |   U.S. markets plunged Thursday afternoon amid fears over the Greek debt crisis and a possible trading glitch involving shares of Procter & Gamble. The volatile afternoon left market watchers struggling to make sense of the wild day on Wall Street....

May 6, 2010  |   Evidence being gathered by investigators increasingly suggests that Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square bomb plot, held ties to the Pakistani Taliban, according to reports out Thursday. Investigators have also discovered that in the days before Saturday's failed...

May 5, 2010  |   A Pakistani policeman guards the locked residence of Faisal Shahzad in Peshawar on Wednesday. Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images. One day after the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old U.S. citizen charged with trying to detonate a car bomb...

May 4, 2010  |   A New York City police officer stands watch Monday night in Times Square. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Federal agents have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan in connection to the failed attempt last weekend to detonate a...

May 3, 2010  |   Eddie Soto, working with Resolve Marine Group, carries oil containment booms Sunday to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Sunday called the growing oil spill in the Gulf...

April 30, 2010  |   Communities along Louisiana's coast are bracing as oil from a vast spill in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to reach land Friday. An estimated 210,000 gallons of oil per day are believed to be leaking. (Photo by Chris...

April 29, 2010  |   If new estimates are correct, the effort to contain a vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just got a lot tougher. Coast Guard officials announced late Wednesday that five times more oil than initially thought is now pouring...

April 28, 2010  |   Spain on Wednesday became the third European nation in two days to see its debt rating downgraded, heightening investor angst about a spiraling fiscal crisis on the continent. The ratings agency Standard & Poor's slashed its rating of Spain by...

April 28, 2010  |   A man looks at a stock indicator in Tokyo on Wednesday. The Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange finished the morning session down 276.67 points -- 2.47 percent. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images.) Global markets took a beating...

April 27, 2010  |   Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.) Lloyd Blankfein is about to have a very difficult Tuesday. With public anger toward the financial industry at a rolling boil and...

April 26, 2010  |   Updated 6:22pm ET Senate Republicans on Monday blocked Democrats' attempt to begin debate on financial reform legislation, a widely expected early setback for the most sweeping overhaul of financial oversight since the Great Depression. The Senate, in a 57-41 vote,...

April 26, 2010  |   Still lacking a bipartisan agreement on financial reform, the Senate is bracing for a crucial test vote Monday over whether to begin debate on Democratic legislation to toughen the rules on Wall Street. Despite lingering GOP resistance, Democrats reached agreement...

April 23, 2010  |   Updated 4:30pm ET Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Friday signed into law the nation's toughest immigration measure, on the heels of President Obama's criticism of the reform as "misguided." In remarks to the press, Brewer said the law "protects every Arizona...

April 23, 2010  |   A poster next to a National Bank of Greece calls for civil servants to strike against austerity cuts. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.) Greece's national debt crisis reached a tipping point Friday, as its prime minister formally asked the...

April 21, 2010  |   A day after President Barack Obama took time out to wish retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens a very happy 90th birthday, he will resume the search for Stevens' successor Wednesday when he invites senators from both parties to...

April 20, 2010  |   Federal regulators and former executives from Lehman Brothers faced renewed criticism from lawmakers in the House on Tuesday during a hearing examining the policy implications of the investment bank's collapse in September 2008. Some of the toughest criticism during the...

April 20, 2010  |   Dorothy Height attends a 2006 congressional hearing about voting rights in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) The civil rights movement lost its founding matriarch early Tuesday morning. Dorothy I. Height, who fought for most of...

April 19, 2010  |   Stranded travelers sleep at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Monday, as main French airports remain closed. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images.) Lawmakers and aviation officials across Europe faced growing criticism Monday, as air travel across the continent...

April 16, 2010  |   A woman at Erfurt Airport in Germany reads about the volcano that is disrupting travel across Europe. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images.) The wide-scale disruption of air travel across much of Europe only got worse on Friday as the...

April 15, 2010  |   A giant cloud of ash spewing from a volcano in Iceland has shutdown airports across much of Europe on Thursday, stranding tens of thousands of passengers across the continent in the broadest suspension of air travel since the 2001...

April 15, 2010  |   Felipe Castro advertises tax preparation services in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.) It's April 15, which means, of course, it's tax day. The Big Money marks the occasion with a look at the five worst parts of the...

April 14, 2010  |   A series of powerful earthquakes slammed western China early Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 in remote Qinghai Province. The largest quake to hit the mainly Tibetan region, which is mostly populated by farmers and...

April 12, 2010  |   President Obama has invited leaders from nearly 50 nations to Washington this week for a global summit on how to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. The two-day summit, which officially kicks off Monday, caps what's been...

April 12, 2010  |   President Barack Obama is set to meet with world leaders at the two-day nuclear security summit. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images.) World leaders from 47 nations begin meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday for a two-day summit focused on...

April 9, 2010  |   Updated 2:25 pm ET Justice John Paul Stevens, a mainstay of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, announced Friday he will retire, ending a 34-year tenure on the High Court and setting the stage for what is likely to be...

April 9, 2010  |   Brian Lemon, a Massey Energy miner, leans against a truck near the Upper Big Branch Mine on Thursday. (Matt Sullivan/Getty Images.) Frustration is mounting in the search for four workers trapped in a West Virginia coal mine as an...

April 8, 2010  |   Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met a high-ranking Chinese official Thursday in Beijing for talks believed to have focused on China's currency. No breakthroughs were reported by either side but rumblings out of the session seem to signal China may be...

April 8, 2010  |   President Barack Obama, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, center, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev toast after after signing the new START in Prague. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.) President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in Prague...

April 7, 2010  |   Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared before a congressional committee investigating the causes of the financial crisis on Wednesday. His message: The Federal Reserve is not to blame for the meltdown. In more than two hours of testimony, Greenspan...

April 7, 2010  |   General Motors announced Wednesday it lost $4.3 billion in the six months that followed its emergence from the fourth largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history last summer. While the loss may seem staggering, the company's first official accounting since...

April 7, 2010  |   West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin points to a map of the Upper Big Branch Mine on Wednesday. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.) As rescue teams race Wednesday to locate four trapped workers from the West Virginia coal mine where...

April 6, 2010  |   A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Communication Commission overstepped its authority in 2008 when it sanctioned Comcast for slowing down some customers' Internet access, effectively reining in the agency's push for so-called net neutrality. In a...

April 6, 2010  |   A truck passes a sign Tuesday morning in Whitesville, W.Va., near the explosion at the Massey Energy Company's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images.) Unsafe levels of toxic gases forced rescue teams in West Virginia...

April 5, 2010  |   Pakistani soldiers take positions following a huge bomb blast in Peshawar, near the U.S. consulate. (Photo by A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images.) Updated 10:37 a.m. ET. | Multiple blasts struck the U.S. consulate in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on...

April 2, 2010  |   Khalifah Varnado reads employment information at a job expo in Arizona earlier this week. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images.) The U.S. economy showed signs of life in March as employers added the most workers to their payrolls in three...

April 2, 2010  |   The Obama administration is shifting its approach to airport security, abandoning the policy of using nationality alone as the basis for screening potentially dangerous travelers in favor of a more intelligence-based system. The new system has been designed to raise...

April 1, 2010  |   The last 1,500 employees at the West Coast's only car plant will be out of a job by day's end Thursday when a 26-year experiment in auto-making officially comes to a close. The New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. plant, otherwise...

April 1, 2010  |   A day after angering many environmental groups by announcing plans to expand offshore drilling, the Obama administration will look to win back their support on Thursday with tough new fuel efficiency standards for vehicles. The rules will require cars and...

March 31, 2010  |   The leader of a Chechen militant group has claimed responsibility for this week's twin suicide blasts that killed 39 people in the Moscow subway system, and he warned Russians that more attacks are on the way. In a video posted...

March 31, 2010  |   Jaime Escalante, the former Los Angeles mathematics teacher whose work with low-income students inspired the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday after a battle with bladder cancer. He was 79. Escalante was a strong advocate for education reform, pushing...

March 31, 2010  |   President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose lifting a long-standing ban on some offshore oil and natural gas drilling, a move that would open parts of the Atlantic coastline, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's north coast to exploration. According...

March 30, 2010  |   President Barack Obama will cap the overhaul to health care on Tuesday when he travels from the White House to a local community college to sign the package of "fixes" to the legislation passed by Congress last week. While the...

March 29, 2010  |   Emergency workers carry a victim's body at Moscow's Lubyanka metro station. (Photo by Dima Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images.) Updated 1:30pm ET Russian authorities are continuing to respond and react to Monday's attacks by two female suicide bombers who blew themselves up...

March 26, 2010  |   A coalition led by Iraq's former prime minister, Iyad Allawi, has edged out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's party in parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results released Friday. Allawi's secular bloc won 91 seats in Iraq's 325-seat parliament, while al-Maliki...

March 26, 2010  |   Supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad demand a vote recount ahead of the final results for the country's general election. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images. Iraq on Friday will announce results from nationwide parliamentary elections held...

March 25, 2010  |   The U.S. Senate has passed a package of fixes to the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama this week, clearing the way for a final vote on the reconciliation measure by the House later today. Despite...

March 25, 2010  |   Democratic Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada hold a news conference Wednesday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) Just when House Democrats thought they were...

March 24, 2010  |   President Obama speaks with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during meetings in Singapore in November. (Photo by Saul Loeb /AFP/Getty Images.) The United States and Russia, which together control more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, have agreed...

March 24, 2010  |   The Obama administration's $50 billion effort to plug the nation's home foreclosure crisis has fallen short of expectations and may ultimately prove to "be of questionable value." That's the conclusion of a scathing report released late Tuesday by the...

March 24, 2010  |   Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., holds up a copy of an Executive Order banning the use of federal funds to be used for abortions, which will be signed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.)...

March 23, 2010  |   As the health care debate raged in town halls across the United States last summer, a cross-Atlantic debate also emerged, with some conservatives criticizing government-run health care in Britain and holding it up as an example of everything they hoped...

March 23, 2010  |   President Barack Obama is set to put into law the most sweeping piece of social legislation in decades Tuesday when he puts his signature on the health care overhaul bill in a White House ceremony. After the ceremony at 11:30...

March 22, 2010  |   UPDATE 5:30PM: On Monday afternoon, Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council, said, "We are disappointed that Google and the Chinese government were unable to reach an agreement that would allow Google to continue operating its search services in...

March 22, 2010  |   President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden embrace in the White House following Sunday night's vote passing health care reform. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.) With President Barack Obama set to sign into law the most sweeping overhaul...

March 19, 2010  |   Updated 5:19 p.m. President Obama delivered Friday an impassioned closing argument for health care reform, telling a crowd in suburban Virginia that "the insurance industry will continue to run amok" if legislation is defeated. Speaking ahead of an expected vote...

March 19, 2010  |   Congressional Republicans gather in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday for a bicameral strategy meeting on health care. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) March Madness is in full swing this weekend, but a true buzzer beater might...

March 18, 2010  |   President Barack Obama talks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) Thursday may be the day House Democratic leaders unveil the fixes they are seeking to the Senate health care bill, setting...

March 17, 2010  |   Jim Griffin of Fort Washington, Md., dresses as Captain America at a Tea Party rally against the health care reform bill Tuesday in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) It's Saint Patrick's Day, and President Barack Obama is marking...

March 16, 2010  |   The Federal Reserve repeated its pledge on Tuesday to hold its key interest rate near zero "for an extended period." In a statement, the central bank said, "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that...

March 16, 2010  |   The Federal Communications Commission formally unveiled Tuesday a sweeping proposal to expand broadband Internet access across the U.S., a critical peg of the Obama administration's efforts to boost the nation's global competitiveness. The FCC proposal calls for connecting some 100...

March 16, 2010  |   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference with children's health advocates on Monday. Photo by Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images. With the House of Representatives inching closer to a historic vote on health care reform, Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their...

March 15, 2010  |   Supporters of a comprehensive health care reform bill are nearing the endgame, as the fate of the legislation may finally be decided this week. President Barack Obama will kick off the final push Monday when he travels to Ohio to...

March 12, 2010  |   The Food and Drug Administration has issued its strictest safety warning for the anti-clotting medication Plavix after determining the popular blood thinner may leave some patients at risk for heart attack or stroke. The FDA ruled Plavix labels must begin...

March 12, 2010  |   Ben Bernanke may soon have a new No. 2 at the Federal Reserve. President Obama is expected to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to serve as the central bank's vice chairwoman, according...

March 12, 2010  |   More than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue workers made ill by dust and other contaminants left by the collapse of the World Trade Center could receive as much as $657.5 million in damages under a settlement reached with the city...

March 11, 2010  |   Foreclosure data released Thursday offer a glimmer of hope for the U.S. housing market. But make that a qualified glimmer. Foreclosures slowed to their slowest pace in four years in February, but were still 6 percent higher than a...

March 11, 2010  |   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is meeting with fellow Democrats Thursday morning to outline key elements of a final health care reform package. Democrats are still awaiting a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, but following a closed-door...

March 10, 2010  |   President Barack Obama takes his push for health care reform back on the road Wednesday, as he looks to rally lawmakers to act on legislation before he leaves for an overseas trip March 18. The president's address at a suburban...

March 9, 2010  |   --Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to their meeting at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Photo by David Furst/AFP/Getty Images. On a mission to restart stalled peace talks in...

March 8, 2010  |   -- Kurdish Iraqis read newspapers in the northern city of Arbil a day after Sunday's general elections. Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images. Braving insurgent attacks that killed at least 38 people, Iraqis flocked to the polls Sunday for parliamentary...

March 2, 2010  |   Neither snow nor rain will stop the mail, but red ink might. Facing as much as $238 billion in losses over the next decade, the Postal Service announced Tuesday it will move to scale back its delivery schedule to five...

March 2, 2010  |   Aid to Chile's second largest city, Concepcion, was slowed Tuesday as troops struggled to control the looting that has broken out in the wake of last weekend's mammoth earthquake. Officials extended a curfew and dozens were arrested, as looters not...

March 1, 2010  |   In a bid to cut the nation's high school drop out rate, President Obama on Monday proposed as much as $900 million in federal aid to states that agree to shake up or even close their worst schools. The president's...

March 1, 2010  |   --Men sit in a street devastated by the tsunami in Talcahuano, Chile. Photo Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images. Three more aftershocks jolted Chile early Monday, as the death toll from this weekend's mammoth earthquake climbed to more than 700 and rescue...

February 28, 2010  |   Chile was rattled by another powerful aftershock Sunday, one of at least 10 to strike the country in the aftermath of yesterday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake. The latest aftershock struck the capital of Santiago at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time, less...

February 26, 2010  |   Update: 3:35pm EST Less than a week after launching his reelection bid, New York's embattled Democratic governor, David Paterson, has announced he is ending his bid for a second term. The announcement comes as Paterson is under fire for intervening...

February 26, 2010  |   One day after the Afghan government raised its flag in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, militants killed at least 17 people in a series of attacks in Kabul. The suicide attacks targeted two hotels rented by Indian embassy workers and...

February 25, 2010  |   A reasoned discussion, a boxing bout, a pro wrestling match, reality TV. Thursday's bipartisan health care reform talks are being called all of these things. Call it what you want, but one thing is for sure: The stakes are high...

February 24, 2010  |   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that though the economy is in recovery, the central bank will keep interest rates at record-low levels to stave off a return to recession. Bernanke's appearance before the House Financial Services Committee...

February 24, 2010  |   Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, will testify Wednesday before a House committee about the massive recall that has tarnished the world's largest automaker's once sterling reputation for safety. In prepared remarks to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Toyoda,...

February 23, 2010  |   Afghan President Hamid Karzai has issued a presidential decree granting him control of a key electoral monitoring commission, allowing him to remove foreign observers from the watchdog agency ahead of parliamentary elections in September. The decree, issued Feb. 13,...

February 23, 2010  |   As the first of three Congressional hearings on the safety standards at Toyota are set to begin Tuesday, the president of the automaker's U.S. operations is apologizing for the company's slow handling of its vehicles' problems. "Put simply, it has...

February 22, 2010  |   Updated 11:55 a.m. ET In an "opening bid" leading to this week's health reform summit, President Obama released his own version Monday morning of a health reform proposal that he hopes to pass later this spring. It's a plan...

February 22, 2010  |   The Obama administration on Monday is set to outline a package of proposals aimed at salvaging the stalled health care reform effort, including a measure that would provide the federal government new powers to block excessive hikes in insurance premiums....

February 19, 2010  |   President Obama announced a new program Friday that redirects $1.5 billion from the $700 billion bank bailout fund to aid states hardest hit by the housing crisis. The federal aid will go to housing finance agencies in the five states...

February 19, 2010  |   The U.S. led offensive through a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan entered its seventh day Friday as elite teams of Marines were dropped by helicopter behind enemy lines to target snipers. As Marines take on Taliban marksmen in and around...

February 18, 2010  |   In its first step to unwind emergency measures put in place during the height of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve announced late Thursday it was raising the rate it charges banks on emergency loans....

February 18, 2010  |   Two Taliban "shadow governors" have been arrested in Pakistan as part of a stepped up campaign by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence services against the militant group's senior leadership. The arrests of Mullah Abdul Salam, the Taliban's leader in the Afghan...

February 18, 2010  |   Two months after world leaders failed to agree on a legally binding global warming pact at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate change official, has announced his resignation. De Boer denied to the Associated Press...

February 17, 2010  |   A judge in Haiti has freed eight of the 10 American missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping after trying to bring 33 child survivors of last month's earthquake to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said...

February 17, 2010  |   One year and $787 billion later, Wednesday marks the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the stimulus. To highlight the occasion, the Obama administration is gearing up for a public relations blitz to tout...

February 16, 2010  |   -- A Pakistani man in Karachi reads news that top Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been arrested in a joint Pakistani-U.S. operation. Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images. In what may be the most significant capture since...

February 15, 2010  |   -- U.S. Marines fire mortar rounds on Taliban positions in Marjah, Afghanistan, on Monday. Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images. Three days into the largest military offensive since the start of the Afghanistan war in 2001, some 15,000 U.S., Afghan...

February 12, 2010  |   One day after Senate lawmakers unveiled a bipartisan plan for creating jobs, the future of the legislation may already be in doubt. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he plans to bring a scaled-down version of the $85 billion plan...

February 10, 2010  |   Google wants to make the Web faster -- much faster. In a post on its corporate blog Wednesday, the world's largest search engine announced it will build ultra high-speed broadband networks that will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times...

February 4, 2010  |   The American missionaries detained in Haiti last week for trying to take 33 children to neighboring Dominican Republic have been charged with abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors. After announcing the charges, Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph told...

January 27, 2010  |   The Federal Reserve, as expected, announced Wednesday it will keep interest rates near zero "for an extended period" to help support an uneven economic recovery. Sounding a somewhat upbeat tone, the Fed said "that economic recovery has continued to strengthen...

January 26, 2010  |   Bowing to voter angst about the nation's $1.4 trillion budget deficit, President Barack Obama will propose in his State of the Union address Wednesday a near across-the-board freeze on federal spending. The freeze would take effect in October and apply...

January 25, 2010  |   Ben Bernanke's chances of winning a second term as Federal Reserve chairman are looking up Monday after a White House push over the weekend to reverse rising populist sentiment against his confirmation. "He's going to have bipartisan support in the...

January 25, 2010  |   President Barack Obama will use the State of the Union address this Wednesday to propose a series of initiatives aimed at helping middle class families, the New York Times reports. Among the proposals the president is expected to lay out:...

January 22, 2010  |   Obama in Ohio: President Obama heads to Lorain County, Ohio, on Friday to talk jobs as part of his White House to Main Street "listening tour." During the visit to Ohio, where the unemployment rate stands at 10.6 percent, the...

January 21, 2010  |   Turning the focus from health care to the economy, it was widely reported Thursday morning that President Obama is set to propose new regulations that would limit the size of the nation's largest banks and the scope of the risky...

January 20, 2010  |   In a stunning upset in traditionally liberal Massachusetts, Republican State Sen. Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley to win the U.S. Senate seat held by Edward M. Kennedy for 47 years, upending the balance of power in Washington and thrusting...

January 19, 2010  |   U.S. Black Hawk helicopters touched down on the grounds of Haiti's wrecked presidential palace Tuesday to deploy troops and supplies as the international aid efforts continue to gain momentum. Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, tasked with helping speed up...

January 18, 2010  |   The flow of aid workers, troops and medical personnel into Haiti increased Monday, as thousands of quake victims continue to clamor for relief amid the devastation of last week's temblor. Just as extra relief was arriving in Haiti, some...

January 16, 2010  |   President Barack Obama joined predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House Saturday to announce a fundraising appeal to benefit Haiti in "one of the largest relief efforts in our history," Mr. Obama said....

January 15, 2010  |   Elsewhere in the headlines Friday: Fort Hood review: A Pentagon review of the Fort Hood massacre "raises serious questions" about the military's ability to detect security threats within its own ranks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters Friday. According to...

January 15, 2010  |   Despair has begun to give way to anger in Haiti, as countless victims of Tuesday's devastating earthquake awoke Friday still waiting on humanitarian aid that continues to be slowed by a broad array of complications. Even as the first...

January 14, 2010  |   As Haiti continues to reel from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, Americans are donating to the relief effort in droves, and for the first time ever, tens of thousands are doing so via text message. Any mobile phone user can donate $10...

January 14, 2010  |   While we'll once again be keeping the focus on Haiti today, here are a few other stories making headlines this morning: China's Google response: In a response to Google's announcement that it will stop censoring search results in China, officials...

January 14, 2010  |   Day two of rescue and relief efforts kicked off in Haiti Thursday morning, as governments and international aid organizations raced to deliver food, medicine and other critical supplies in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake. An Air China plane carrying...

January 13, 2010  |   For readers looking to contribute to the relief effort in Haiti, here are a few of the organizations collecting donations. NPR has also compiled a list, which you can find here: Hope for Haiti Now Action Against Hunger AmeriCares American...

January 13, 2010  |   While the earthquake in Haiti is the main story we're watching today, here are few other headlines of note this morning: Google has announced it will stop censoring search results in China and threatened to pull out of the country...

January 13, 2010  |   Haiti is bracing for massive casualties Wednesday morning as international aid groups scramble to piece together a response to the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation late Tuesday afternoon. The quake, the worst to hit Haiti in more...

January 12, 2010  |   UPDATED 12:57 p.m. ET What bad economy? The Federal Reserve posted record profits in 2009, positioning itself to return $46.1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, the central bank announced Tuesday. According to an analysis this morning in the Washington...

January 11, 2010  |   The Obama administration is considering levying a new fee on financial institutions to help reduce the federal deficit and to recoup taxpayer dollars used to finance the $700 billion bank rescue. According to a report first published by Politico this...

January 11, 2010  |   Republicans stepped up their efforts Sunday to force a resignation from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after a new book detailed racially insensitive comments made by the Nevada Democrat during the 2008 presidential campaign. Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele...

December 31, 2009  |   Updated 2:20pm ET The CIA confirmed Thursday that the bombing in Afghanistan killed seven of its employees and wounded six others. In Washington, CIA director Leon Panetta said the seven killed in Wednesday's attack "were far from home and close...

December 30, 2009  |   GMAC Financial Services has already received $12.5 billion in government aid. On Wednesday, the auto and home lending giant got another $3.8 billion. The new aid is less than the $5.6 billion that the troubled lender indicated it was seeking...

December 30, 2009  |   The United States had a variety of information that could have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, but failed to share it properly among its intelligence agencies, according to multiple...

December 29, 2009  |   Updated: 9:30pm ET President Obama said Tuesday a "systemic failure" is to blame for the botched Christmas Day plot to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit. "When our government has information on a known extremist and that information...

December 29, 2009  |   While it's been barely more than a week since the official start of winter, cash-strapped state and local governments have already plowed through all or most of their available snow-removal budgets, reports the Wall Street Journal. In Maryland, for example,...

December 29, 2009  |   New details continue to emerge over the botched Christmas Day plot to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit. The dangerous explosive allegedly concealed by 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab could have blown a hole in the side...

December 22, 2009  |   Nearly seven months after announcing a new emphasis on digital security, the Obama administration has tapped a veteran of both eBay and Microsoft to lead the nation's military and civilian cybersecurity efforts. Howard Schmidt, who served as a cybersecurity advisor...

December 21, 2009  |   Updated: Dec. 22, 2009, 12:35pm ET Score one for airline passengers: The Obama administration said Monday it will begin penalizing air carriers for leaving passengers stuck on a tarmac for more than three hours. Under the new guidelines, which take...

December 18, 2009  |   Update 5:50 pm ET: President Obama said Friday a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" had been reached between the U.S., China, India, South Africa and Brazil on a global effort to curb climate change, but said much work was still needed...

December 17, 2009  |   --Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a press conference Thursday at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. (Photo by Henning Bagger/AFP/Getty Images.) In a bid to jumpstart stalled talks at the international climate summit in Copenhagen, the...

December 16, 2009  |   The Federal Reserve wrapped up its final policy meeting of the year on Wednesday, and, as expected, announced it would keep rates near zero "for an extended period." Following two-days of meetings, the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee voiced...

December 16, 2009  |   --Police push back protesters in Copenhagen on Wednesday, the 10th day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Danish police fired tear gas and arrested more than 200 activists, who accuse negotiators of ignoring their voices. (Photo by Adrian...

December 15, 2009  |   General Motors plans to repay $6.7 billion in federal aid by the end of June, the company's new chief executive officer, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., told reporters Tuesday. GM owes the U.S. $6.7 billion out of $52 billion in aid...

December 15, 2009  |   --Senators Patty Murray, D-Wash., Max Baucus, D-Mont., Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Harry Reid, D-Nev., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., make brief statements Monday evening at the Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) Monday, it was Wall Street executives...

December 14, 2009  |   --Citigroup announced Monday morning it struck a deal with the Treasury Department to repay $20 billion of bailout money. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.) After weeks of trying to persuade regulators that it was sound enough to stand on...

December 4, 2009  |   -- President Barack Obama greets Allentown, Pa., Mayor Ed Pawlowski after the administration's Jobs and Economic Growth Forum in Washington yesterday. Mr. Obama will visit Allentown today. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.)   Updated 11:10 a.m. Good news from...

December 3, 2009  |   On an unusually warm December day in Washington this Thursday, top administration officials are gearing up for another day of hearings on President Obama's decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. In hearings yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary...