Joseph Orovic

U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., will introduce bills on Wednesday to impose a .03 percent transaction tax on trades of stocks and bonds

An edited video of a speech made by Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry has gone viral, and left many openly questioning the Texas governor's sobriety.

Dorothy Rodham, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, died Tuesday, shortly after midnight at the age of 92.

Six members of the budget deficit super committee have formed a mini-group in an effort to iron-out a deal that just barely meets or slightly surpasses the committee's $1.2 trillion deficit reduction goal.

Despite lacking a definitive Republican candidate, presidential candidates can mark their calendars -- the Commission on Presidential Debates has released its 2012 schedule.

Texas park rangers have been given permission to shoot free-roaming donkeys at Big Bend State Park, in an effort to eradicate the intruding Mexican species from taking away vital resources from the native species.

House Speaker John Boehner expects the budget deficit super committee will find some middle ground on its road to closing at least $1.2 trillion in the national's budget gap.

The Congressional super committee has been less transparent than Casper the Friendly Ghost, according to several good government organizations, who are staging Halloween rallies to call for more openness as the dozen-member group decides how to tighten the budget by at least another $1.2 trillion.

The nation's lottery players will have a shot at nearly $245 million on Wednesday night, as PowerBall's Saturday drawing did not net any winners. Meanwhile, the MegaMillons game jackpot is now only $78 million: that drawing is Tuesday night.

Solar panels have, for good or ill, traveled a familiar but slow technological road. But manufacturing advances, booming investment and falling prices could, after nearly six decades, make solar panels the new normal.

The way DeLorean Motor Company owner Stephen Wynne sees it, if you're gonna build an electric car, why not make it a DeLorean DMC-12 sports car?

Republican members of the deficit reduction super committee presented a plan that would shrink the budget gap by $2.2 trillion over a decade exclusively through spending cuts.

The Federal Highway Administration reports that travel on U.S. roadways through the first eight months of 2011 has reached its lowest level since 2003.

After two decades in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Olver, D-Mass., announced he will retire at the end of his term.

Whether they are on the social network or not, New York's convicted sex offenders have de facto Facebook profiles, as the state has released a Facebook app that gives access to its sex offender registry.

The Congressional super committee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions by Nov. 23 was reportedly encouraged to aim higher by Senate Democrats.

The 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- the super committee -- held a public hearing Wednesday, after what has been two months of nearly-clandestine meetings offering little indication of progress. Things have reportedly become so uncertain, congressional leaders have intervened to hammer out a deal.

Greenpeace has sued Dow Chemical, another major chemical company Sasol North America, their public relations firms, and alleged individual employees of Beckett Brown International, claiming the collective went through James Bond-like efforts to dig up reconnaissance on the eco-activist nonprofit.

John McCarthy, best known for coining the term “artificial intelligence” over five decades ago and inventing the programming language Lisp, died on Oct. 23. He was 84 years old.

The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, took an unusual jaunt south last night, reportedly appearing in states from Wisconsin to New Mexico and from Maine to California.