Washington Bureau

Over a strong dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal Monday from a former top aide to Mayor Richard Daley who was convicted of...

President Barack Obama is likely to select former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as commerce secretary, a position that the White House has had a difficult time filling. An administration official...

Federal officials told banks Monday that infusions of government bailout money would come with new strings attached -- specifically, the potential that taxpayer dollars could be converted into voting shares...

If the fight to end the economic crisis is a war, the stock market's continuing dive, deepening troubles in the global economy and recent developments at home show that the...

When Steven Chu talks about how Americans can break their addiction to oil and coal, he starts with his hi-fi amplifier. It's so old that the on-off light burned out...

In Martin County, Ky., a remote corner of Appalachia, it can take hours to reach a doctor's office, a simple cholesterol check costing a miner a day's work. "It's a...

Hugh Caperton, a small coal-mine owner from Slab Fork, W.V., was driven into bankruptcy after he ran up against the huge A.T. Massey Coal Company, but got a measure of...

President Barack Obama will offer a plan this week to cut the federal deficit by half by the end of his first term in office, largely by winding down the...

President Franklin Roosevelt's prescription for the Depression included the same general public works spending found in the economic recovery bill just signed by President Barack Obama. And FDR left a...

As quickly as talk of taxing mileage instead of gasoline surfaced in the Obama Cabinet, the White House sank it. Concerned that traditional gas taxes cannot keep pace with the...