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As the economy sinks toward recession and increased regulation gains support, lawmakers aim to tackle the elusive, unregulated derivatives market, with a focus on credit default swaps.

And the walkback of the year award goes to ... Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger! Less than 24 hours after he told National Public Radio that

On Halloween, the Obama campaign uploaded another appeal targeting young voters on YouTube, this time starring Google CEO Eric Schmidt. You should be

Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary season.

If you’re spending yet another day keeping an eye on falling stock markets and hoping against a catastrophic collapse of global markets by this afternoon, it’s

Something that bears clarification from my J Street piece yesterday: when Daniel Levy refers to zealots who destroyed previous Jewish commonwealths, he was

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) is acting under a legal mandate to investigate the causes of the collapse of each major financial institution

State Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) People Engaged in Active Community Efforts (aka PEACE) released a study Thursday that finds that Miami-Dade County’s anti-wage theft ordinance is “much more effective” at dealing with wage theft claims than the process in Palm Beach County, where no such ordinance exists. The Miami-Dade measure is under attack in the courts, and in the state Legislature

Yesterday, May 11, was when the Real ID Act, signed into law three years ago to the day, was due to kick in. The law set national standards for all state

The House oversight committee released a smattering of documents today from two big credit-rating agencies-- Moody’s and Standard & Poor -- on how they

He was never officially in and now he’s out . Real estate and reality TV mogul Donald Trump flirted for weeks with a 2012 GOP presidential run and came to top Republican voter polls after a high profile proto-campaign in which he rehashed the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States but has been passing off a forged birth certificate for years.

Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v.

The latest -- and possibly final -- text of an agreement on America’s future role in Iraq reveals that practically every effort made by the Bush White House to lock in the occupation as enduring U.S. foreign policy has failed.

Apparently the Justice Department found that Eric Holder ought to have disclosed to the Senate the fact that he signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted Monday of all seven counts related to lying on his federal disclosure forms. The verdict threatens to topple the