The San Fernando Valley's Holly Dagres, who is vying to become Miss California, has her feet done by Kim Le and her nails done by Donna Luong at a salon in Northridge on Nov.

Holly Dagres As she has almost each year since childhood, Holly Dagres spent last summer in Tehran wearing a chador, the traditional long black cloak that covers a woman's body completely, leaving only her hands and face visible.

Life insurers are concerned that legislation the House Financial Services Committee is likely to approve after Thanksgiving will increase costs substantially for the 28 carriers that have assets of more than $50 billion.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The ADL's Three "Extremist Conspiracy Theories" In Context And With Evidence Text size Steve Watson Infowars.net Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 Related: Purging The Undesirables: ADL Attempts To Pin A Yellow Star On Grass Roots America The Anti-Defamation League has published a fresh report directly targeting Alex Jones as an ...

Large systemically significant financial institutions can't over-leverage themselves and have a debt to equity ratio greater than 15 to 1, according to a provision approved by the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday.

Nov. 19, 2009 - The House Financial Services Committee yesterday approved two key amendments to H.R. 3996, including one that eases the risk-retention requirements for institutions selling mortgage loans on the secondary market.

Legislation mandating broad regulatory reform in the banking industry continued to take shape Tuesday, with lawmakers approving limits on the amount of taxpayer funds that could be used to dismantle insolvent, "too-big-to-fail" financial institutions.

Nov. 17, 2009 - A NAFCU-sought amendment affecting fees for the resolution of large, failing non-bank financial firms could get action this week as the House Financial Services Committee resumes mark-up of a systemic risk oversight package.

After reading the coverage in the Daily News outlining all the disgusting pork added to the water bond measure, I can assure the governor that at least one voter will be voting no on the measure.

Under a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank, big banks would not be forced to downsize and the public would be the last to know when they fail.

The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington opened its new church at 16th and P streets NW over the weekend.

Timing is everything, and sometimes it's awkward: The Church of Scientology unveiled its grand new center a half-mile from the White House on Saturday -- the same day the St.

The Church of Scientology hosted a "blessing and opening ceremony" of its new building at 1424 16th St.

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Congressman Brad Sherman is proposing legislation to allow Bob Hope and Van Nuys Airports to implement mandatory nighttime curfews from 10 PM to 7 AM.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank is refuting accusations that a bill he helped author would lead to a rash of taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts.

Responding to consumer frustration over rising credit card rates, the House on Wednesday approved legislation to accelerate the implementation of new laws to crack down on abusive practices by credit card companies to December 1. The House voted 331-92 to move up the effective date of recently approved restrictions on credit card companies from the ...

Last week, President Barack Obama released key legislation designed to fight the banking industry's too-big-to-fail problem.

It was a tall order last fall when then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Jr. asked Congress for $700 billion and nearly unilateral power over how to spend it.

Lawmakers and economists have expressed doubts about a major U.S. Treasury Department proposal to regulate future financial crisis.