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Sources with knowledge of the negotiations say Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is preparing an executive order to authorize racetrack slots and break a budget stalemate.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner say the enormous scale of the financial derivatives market helped to cripple the economy and that greater oversight is needed to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Gov. Chet Culver has hired a new chief of staff. Culver named John Frew as his chief of staff on Thursday.

A Department of Veterans Affairs letter pledges free medical care and treatment for former patients who have tested positive for HIV or hepatitis since being exposed to endoscopic cleaning mistakes at three VA hospitals in the Southeast.

Riding a wave of public outrage over credit card practices, 7-Eleven Inc. wants to show merchants are victims of the industry too.

Family members arive to search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Thursday, July 9, 2009, after graves were discovered dug up Wednesday and bodies dumped into unmarked mass graves in an alleged scheme to resell the plots to unsuspecting members of the public.

The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting a debate in Congress over what to do with it.

A week after a new fiscal year began for the majority of U.S. states, several still lacked balanced budgets on Wednesday and a few of those were likely not to reach a deal for at least another week.

An income tax surcharge on highly paid Americans emerged as the leading option Wednesday night as House Democrats sought ways to pay for health care legislation that President Barack Obama favors, several officials said.

Six Democrats on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said the head of the CIA admitted the agency misled Congress since 2001 about a oesignificant actions.a In a letter to CIA Director Leon Panetta , the six members said he had a oerecentlya testified that a oetop CIA officials have concealed significant actions from all members of Congressa and ...

The former chief of staff for ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify about attempts to cash in on the governor's power to fill a vacant U.S. Senate post.

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 ...

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will run for re-election to her current post in 2010, according to a Democratic source aware of the decision, ending months of speculation about whether she might make the leap to a Senate or gubernatorial bid.

U.S. watchdog eyes energy trading limits Oil and gas: One of the bright lights in the otherwise dismal Statistics Canada report, capacity use in oil and gas extraction rose 1.7 per cent in the first quarter to 78.6 per cent.

Former Bush White House official Karl Rove was questioned by House Judiciary Committee lawyers Tuesday on any role he may have played in politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys.

Brooke Shields speaks at the memorial service for music legend Michael Jackson, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

A federal jury has seen video of a former Louisiana congressman accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000 in cash outside a northern Virginia hotel.

A former executive for a defense contractor with ties to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha has been charged by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh with taking about $200,000 in kickbacks from a subcontractor.

When Al Franken assumes his new Senate perch Tuesday, the numbers will tell his tale: Minnesota's second senator, the symbolic 60th vote for Democrats -- and No.

Steve Pearce of Hobbs, who represented New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District for three terms, wants the job again.