The Food and Drug Administration, consistently overstepping its food-safety charter to promote itself as enlightened custodian of the masses, has already spent the summer waging a war to further expand the nanny state - e-cigarettes, plastic containers and cough medicines have all become targets for an expanded regulatory regime and ...

The big three credit-rating agencies that totally missed the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market - Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch - still give the United States a AAA credit rating. But there's a newcomer in the credit-rating game - Dagong Global Credit Rating - which has a very ...

The Republican-oriented American Action Forum has been polling across the country, in an attempt to gauge where certain competitive House races stand. Their latest round covers districts in the West. The results: -AZ-01: Republican Paul Gosar leads Democratic incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick 47 percent to 41 percent. -AZ-05: Republican Dave Schweikert leads Democratic incumbent Harry Mitchell 50 percent to 44 percent. -AZ-08: Republican Jesse Kelly ties Democratic incumbent Gabby Giffords at 46 percent. -CA-11: Repbulican David Harmer leads Democratic incumbent Jerry McNerney 45 percent to 44...

A lesson in the dangers of extremist rhetoric.

Remarks by President Obama, President Mubarak, His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas Before Working Dinner 7:05 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening, everyone. Tomorrow, after nearly two years, Israelis and Palestinians will resume direct talks in pursuit of a goal that we all share -- two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. Tonight, I'm pleased to welcome to the White House key partners in this effort, along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the representative of our Quartet partners, former Prime...