Andrew Zajac

Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up,...

As trumpets played and drums rolled, Barack Obama walked smiling out of the Capitol and into the winter sun to take his oath of office, stopping to embrace an icon...

When money manager Bernard Madoff was arrested in New York this month on charges of engineering a massive Ponzi scheme, Wall Street financiers were left slack-jawed at the unmasking of...

A Senate seat, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly said, "is a [expletive] valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing." But apparently you don't charge market value either....

Balloting in Tuesday's election was marked by long lines from record turnouts and voting equipment glitches but appeared free of significant claims of fraud or other chicanery that marred closely...

It wasn't technically an October surprise -- because it should not have been, by any definition, a surprise to the GOP presidential ticket -- but an Alaska investigator's declaration that...

Sarah Palin may be the heroine of the religious right, but Rev. Gene Straatmeyer vividly recalls a public run-in he once had with the now Republican vice presidential candidate over...

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sought to illustrate her frugality and flair to delegates at the GOP convention Wednesday, she described how she disposed of a corporate jet acquired by...

Sen. John McCain on Thursday adamantly denied having an affair nine years ago with a Washington lobbyist, and his presidential campaign sought to use the furor over the insinuation of...