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Can GPS devices be used to track anyone the government is investigating for a crime and placed on a person's vehicle without a warrant? This legal issue will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court soon.

President-elect Obama announced the latest member of his circle of economic advisers Tuesday, giving Peter Orszag the nod as director of the Office of Management and Budget and promising to go through the federal budget "line by line" to eliminate unnecessary spending.

The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday yet another massive deal to buy $600 billion worth of mortgage-backed assets and $200 billion in consumer debt securities as the government struggles to stabilize the economy amid an unprecedented financial crisis.

Two major mortgage lenders announced plans to resume taking back homes as soon as possible. But delays over questionable paperwork have not eliminated the threat of foreclosure for homeowners.

Farm-To-School Movement Mixes Things Up At Local Schools

Its first act has concluded, but the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to cause dramatic fallout for years to come. The blown oil well Macondo has been covered with cement and was declared "effectively dead" Sunday, but its legal, ecological and economic effects are only just starting.

The City of San Diego may not have to spend billions of dollars upgrading the Point Loma Sewage Treatment Plant. The EPA has tenatively given the city a third five-year waiver from meeting federal Cle

U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who was accused of having ties to a number of plots against the U.S., was killed Friday in Yemen. Also thought to be killed in the drone strike was another American, Samir Khan, the editor of al-Qaida's English-language online magazine, Inspire..

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair suggested the government guarantee mortgages as a means of avoiding foreclosures. And former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he had been wrong to believe banks would be more prudent in their lending practices before the financial crisis hit.

A U.S. citizen held at a border immigration center for 15 days has been released after an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer showed a birth certificate to federal authorities.