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Democratic lawmakers are working to put the final touches on a $15 billion emergency loan for the nation's Big 3 automakers. While the proposal hasn't passed, it seems like only a matter of time befo

The Federal Reserve takes dramatic measures to reassure the anxious investment community, including negotiating the bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns. The moves raise questions about how deep the financial industry's woes go — and who else is at risk.

Employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs in August as the nation's jobless rate reached its highest level since June 1983. But the number of job cuts is the smallest decline in payrolls in a year.

A man who was likely exposed to the toxin ricin last week remains in a coma after being found in his Las Vegas hotel room. The man had recently moved to Nevada from Salt Lake City. Federal agents have searched storage units and another home where he stayed in Utah.

It would mark only the second year without a cost-of-living adjustment since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975. The first year was this year. "If you're the ruling party, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happening two weeks before an election,'' says one analyst.

Tijuana police officers have become another target in the brutal drug wars. Drug cartel hit men have killed 23 officers in the last five months.

President Obama is taking back-to-back foreign trips that represent a pivot from new foreign policy challenges to old ones. He is currently on a 10-day tour of developing democracies in Asia. Next week, he attends a NATO summit in Portugal, where the challenge is reinvention and relevance.

There's a new obstacle in California's bid to have stricter motor vehicle emission requirements than the rest of the country. Los Angeles Congressman Henry Waxman says the White House is illegally lob

A plan by two Columbia University economists to help millions of Americans cut their mortgage rates still faces congressional scrutiny. Some critics say the plan exaggerates the savings to homeowners and would hurt mortgage investors.

Some gay rights activists say the march planned for this weekend in Washington, D.C., is bad timing and may drain resources from critical fights raging elsewhere, and that old-fashioned lobbying is much more effective. Organizers counter that it's not an either/or situation.