Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Breakdown of hot weekend topics
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he could face a runoff in Russia's presidential vote in March -- his first acknowledgment that he may fail to muster enough suppor...
Steve Forbes tackles 'Because You Asked' inquiry
The Minnesota government shutdown is already a memory, but its consequences were felt Friday in a national hiring report that had a gloomy outlook for government job...
Senate majority leader: Private sector fine, spending plan needed for government jobs
In a healthy economic recovery, states and localities start hiring, expand services and help fuel the nation's growth.Then there's the 2011 recovery.The U.S. economy...
New numbers on high female unemployment
Whenever Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has asked lawmakers to weaken benefits for state employees, his proposals have met little resistance from workers.Mississippi...
A broad plan to absorb Sunni Muslim militiamen who battled al-Qaida in Iraq into national security forces or government jobs is at risk of being derailed by lukewarm...
Hundreds of former Libyan rebels who helped topple Muammar Qaddafi were filling out applications Wednesday for jobs with the new government as a first step to disarm...
State governments across the country have cut more than 80,000 jobs since the beginning of the recession, reflecting steep drops in tax revenue and providing a drag ...
Reaction to president's plan to merge agencies
Athens is besieged by riots, because ordinary Greeks understand what their leaders won’t admit. The reforms imposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek cred...
At Age 3, Stimulus Still Clouds Obama Re-Election Prospects“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that I will sign today -- a plan that meets the principles I l...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will present lawmakers a $132 billion state budget that calls for a slight spending increase but doesn't raise taxes.State spending would ...
Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what motivated the driver of a sport utility vehicle to ignore a downed crossing arm and flashing lights and pull th...
Report: 400,000 state and local government jobs in jeopardy over next year
While Congress is moving to explicitly apply insider trading laws to its members, lawmakers are exempt from provisions of other federal laws.In 1995, the House and S...
The stock market finally got a deal in Greece, but it didn't produce much of a rally.U.S. stocks rose Thursday morning after Greece announced an agreement to cut cos...