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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gargantuan task faces whoever President Barack Obama picks to head up a new, powerful Treasury Department office charged with a...
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Aging heroes of the civil rights movement and younger African-American leaders on Wednesday offered differing views of the challenges most urgently co...
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The BP oil spill may be choking the Gulf ecosystem but for a few well-positioned coastal politicians it's breathed new life into their careers.&a...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is warning Congress that the economic outlook remains "unusually uncertain," although he says the Fed ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers' total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the past y...
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President Barack Obama will on Wednesday sign into law the Wall Street reform bill -- the most-sweeping set of changes to America's financial reg...
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This week at the NAACP annual convention, we passed over 75 resolutions. They addressed critical issues from education equity, to fixing our broken cr...
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Congress is expected to finish work this week on the biggest changes to the financial regulatory system since the 1930s - giving regulators a green li...
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A longtime associate of Usama bin Laden on Wednesday pleaded guilty at Guantanamo Bay to charges of conspiracy and material support, laying the ground...
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If President Obama was hoping to light a spark under immigration reform, he'd better get more matches. The president's speech last ...