Efforts to tighten financial regulation gained speed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, with revised legislation seen as soon as next week from two key lawmakers now traveling together in Central America.
Efforts to tighten financial regulation picked up speed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday as a key committee targeted next week for the unveiling of revised legislation and the week after for a working session on it.
An apparently disgruntled man crashed a small plane into a federal building housing U.S. tax offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday, and federal officials said it may have been a deliberate attack.
NATO and Afghan troops have hit pockets of stiff resistance in Marjah, the Taliban's main stronghold in southern Afghanistan, and may need another month to fully secure the area, a NATO commander said on Thursday.
Senate Banking Committee members are considering a watered down version of the 'Volcker rule' unveiled last month by the Obama administration to curb risk-taking by banks, sources familiar with the panel's thinking said on Thursday.
President Barack Obama hosted exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday, drawing an angry reaction from China and risking further damage to strained Sino-U.S. ties.
Efforts to tighten financial regulation picked up speed in the Senate on Thursday as a key committee targeted the unveiling of revised legislation for next week and a working session on the bill the week after.
The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economy's recovery.
A second gold medal spectacularly secured, snowboarding icon Shaun White set his sights on a night of even higher office.
American consumers say they reduced their spending in January to levels similar to early 2009, when the U.S. economy was still in recession, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday, a move that has been denounced by China.
Ties between China and the United States will be tested this year by many issues: currency, trade, Internet censorship, human rights, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and President Barack Obama's meeting on Thursday with the Dalai Lama.
Efforts to extend the Kyoto climate pact framework risk collapse in a setback to years of diplomatic bargains, as chances fade that the United States will join other rich nations in capping emissions.
U.S. President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said his commitment to NASA was unwavering after his administration's 2011 budget slashed funding to return U.S. astronauts to the moon.
Housing starts rose to a six-month high in January and industrial output increased solidly, pointing to an economic recovery that was taking a firm hold and respectable first-quarter growth.
Iran will not give up uranium enrichment and the West must get used to an Iran that is a master of enrichment, Tehran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Beijing is likely to let its currency begin rising in value again this year in response to growing pressures at home and abroad, two U.S. private sector specialists on China said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama vigorously defended his $787 billion stimulus on Wednesday, insisting it rescued Americans from the worst of the economic calamity and ripping Republican critics who called it a waste.
U.S. housing starts rose to a six-month high in January and industrial output increased solidly, pointing to an economic recovery that was taking a firm hold and respectable first-quarter growth.
The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sailed into Hong Kong on schedule on Wednesday despite a Chinese pledge to suspend military exchanges with the United States after its announced arms sales to Taiwan.
President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus prevented another Great Depression while creating or preserving 2 million jobs, according to a White House report to be released on Wednesday.
