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Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.

The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may have a regulated market where they could sell them.

A New Berlin student accused of blackmailing boys for sex in a scam that started on Facebook is due back in court today.

An advertising executive who handcuffed his ex-wife and held her hostage inside their home was on a ``suicide mission,'' printing out piles of papers on how to kill himself before setting the house on fire when the woman escaped and refusing to leave, police said.

Twenty-five people, including lawyers, bankers, mortgage brokers and appraisers, and a mortgage company have been charged with committing mortgage frauds involving at least $US102 million, New York City prosecutors said on Wednesday.

MIAMI a ' In an odd intersection of showbiz and securities fraud, proving a claim that Paris Hilton was a lousy pitchwoman would benefit investors jilted by a Ponzi scheme she had no part in.

Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports.Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy ...

State government is starting to crack along the seams as Ohio moves into the second week of temporary budgeting with costs reaching about $14 million a week, Gov.

The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to rally opposition.

The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.

Three Dallas businessmen have been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running a $485 million Ponzi scheme through a company they controlled and owned called Provident Royalties LLC.

The average American family would pay at most $1 a day more to fight climate change, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate committee on Tuesday.

U.S. regulators say they may clamp down on oil and gas price speculators by limiting the holdings of energy futures traders, including index and exchange-traded funds.

Joe Biden is expected to announce that three major hospital associations have agreed to provide $160 billion in savings to pay for a health care overhaul.

New York's Sen. Charles E. Schumer has introduced a bill that would close a loophole that prevents child care groups from gaining access to job applicants' criminal records from other states or the FBI.

Five men accused of being members of a white supremacist gang were found guilty Monday on federal racketeering, drug and firearms charges stemming from what prosecutors called a reign of intimidation and violence in Nevada prisons.

Police responding to a domestic disturbance arrived at Stacey Anvarinia's home to find the mother breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby in front of them.

About 100 firefighters were battling the blaze at the Patrick Cudahy Inc. plant in Cudahy, a suburb of about 18,000 residents seven miles south of downtown Milwaukee.

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday: - - - With a 150-year prison sentence Monday, Bernard Madoff got what he had coming to him - and certainly more than enough to guarantee that the 71-year-old master swindler will die in prison, not in the Hamptons.