The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't pretty. The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.
Wisconsin Democratic senators, holed up in out-of-state hotels, gave no timetable for a return, putting on hold a fiscal bill that would limit collective-bargaining rights.
Top Senate Democrats tried to scotch efforts by Majority Whip Richard Durbin to include Social Security in comprehensive deficit-reduction negotiations.
During an hourlong debate, three candidates for Chicago mayor took turns attacking a fourth, Rahm Emanuel, the favorite in the coming election, who didn't display any of his well-known combativeness.
Federal prosecutors have decided to close their criminal investigation into former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive Angelo Mozilo without filing charges, according to people familiar with the matter.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fired his most pointed rebuttal yet at foreign critics who say the U.S. central bank's easy money policies are breeding inflation and asset bubbles abroad.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's call to cancel a state drug-monitoring program has sparked an uproar in Appalachian states that say they are deluged with illegally bought pills from South Florida pain clinics.
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U.S. efforts to stabilize Bahrain, another key Arab ally threatened by popular uprising, is being threatened on several fronts—including apparent splits in Bahrain's royal family and a sense of disengagement by Saudi Arabia, the region's biggest power.
The Obama administration peeled back a rule defining when health-care workers can refuse to administer treatments they find morally objectionable, reversing a final act of George W. Bush's administration.
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House Republicans voted to bar the federal government from spending money on the health-care overhaul, the latest GOP effort to derail the Obama administration's top domestic initiative.
Fights over spending on public employees have shut down the state capitol in Wisconsin, sent firemen marching in Newark, N.J., and are now complicating California Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close a $26.6 billion budget gap.
A federal judge decided against a request by news organizations to unseal search warrant records listing the items seized from the home of the suspect in the Arizona shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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Intel unveiled plans to build a $5 billion chip factory in Arizona and hire 4,000 additional workers, during a visit by President Obama.
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The House voted to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, refineries and other stationary sources in a blow to the Obama administration.
The nation's largest banks are testing how much their customers are willing to pay for checking-account services that used to be free.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said he won't "pick fights" with the state's employee unions amid days of protest in Wisconsin over legislation to limit collective bargaining.
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The House's weeklong debate over spending cuts exposed just how much the 2010 election has blurred the lines of authority in Washington.
Some donors who deserted the RNC during Michael Steele's reign are writing checks again as the party, with new Chairman Reince Priebus, embarks on a campaign to unseat Obama.
Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Obama sat down for dinner with Apple's Steve Jobs, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other corporate chieftains.
Abigail Kawananakoa has been on a decades-long treasure hunt—a bid to recover silverware, lamps, rare furniture and other assorted objects from her family's former home. Make that "palace."
Too many men in their 20s live in a kind of extended adolescence—and women are sick of dealing with them.
Hotelier Andre Balazs, publicist Steven Huvane, designer Georgina Chapman and interior designer Michael Smith on the best restaurants, bars and shops in L.A.
Soldiers fired live rounds on thousands of marching protesters in Bahrain, dramatically escalating the conflict in one of the world's key energy corridors on a day when deadly clashes also mounted in Libya and Yemen.
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A closer look at studies analyzing the glut of information people face every days suggests the avalanche of words and images isn't as massive as feared.
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In today's pictures, Russia's president and prime minister go skiing, a man works at a mustard farm in India, a woman prepares masks for Rio's Carnival and more.
They worked together as money managers at hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. They skated together and vacationed together. And, prosecutors say, they traded on inside information together.
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A bipartisan reduce-the-deficit commission made a splash last year with a plan. Now, Obama and GOP lawmakers say spending on entitlements must be restrained. Neither side, so far, is willing to go first.
Edgar Hetteen built the sport of snowmobiling from a grain-silo conveyor belt, an old Chevrolet bumper and other spare parts lying around his farm-equipment shop. He died Saturday at age 90.
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