2:25 PM Mar 7, 2013

Is there a White House in Jeb Bush's future?

Jeb Bush has long resisted pressure from supporters to run for president. Now the former Florida governor is signaling that he's at least open to the idea, a shift that comes as he promotes a new book and Republicans struggle to rebound after President Barack Obama's re-election.
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6:00 AM Feb 28, 2013

Panel: Change sentencing in child porn cases

Internet leads to broad sentencing disparities
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9:00 AM Feb 28, 2013

Government shutdown?

As budget cuts loom, House Republicans turn to mapping strategy
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8:18 PM Feb 12, 2013

Report: Cities have hundreds of empty schools

Hundreds of schools in the nation's largest cities are sitting empty as education officials struggle to sell these potentially valuable properties that are a drain on school district finances, according to a study released Monday.
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6:02 PM Feb 11, 2013

Study: 1 in 5 consumers had error in credit report

One in five consumers had an error in a credit report issued by a major agency, according to a government study released Monday.
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6:04 PM Feb 8, 2013

No hype with storm; experts call it the real thing

You can call it a snowstorm of historic proportions. You can call it the return of New England's blizzard of 1978. You can call it simply dangerous. And you can even call it Nemo.
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1:01 PM Feb 6, 2013
FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2011 file photo Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion, the financially struggling agency says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs

The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the financially struggling agency says.
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1:22 PM Jan 27, 2013
Richard Cordray stands left as President Barack Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, that he will re-nominate Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a role that he has held for the last year under a recess appointment, and nominate Mary Joe White to lead the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama renominates Ohioan as consumer watchdog

President Barack Obama wants former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to stay on as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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6:39 PM Jan 23, 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a congressional hearing Wednesday.

Defiant Hillary Clinton fires back

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a fiery response Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration's handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.
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6:06 AM Jan 24, 2013
FILE - This Feb. 28, 2011 file photo shows protests continuing at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., as police and demonstrators gather on the rotunda floor where opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have been sleeping.

Unions suffer sharp decline in membership

Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had difficulty organizing new members in the private sector despite signs of an improving economy.
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