Economic Stimulus Plan

Ahead of the Republican presidential debate Thursday night, the Democratic National Committee has released a report that concludes millions of jobs nationwide -- 365,355 in Pennsylvania -- would be lost if the GOP-backed plan to balance the budget...

As Washington prepares to reopen a spruced up District of Columbia War Memorial, a fight intensifies over whether the often overlooked memorial should be turned into a national World War I memorial....

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the current Republican frontrunner in the oversized field of hopefuls to take on President Obama next year, is making his Pennsylvania campaign debut in Allentown Thursday. Romney will hold a late afternoon news...

As Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney plans his visit to Allentown today, his campaign released a web video about the closure of Allentown Metal Works -- a factory that a year before it went out of business was touted by......

A new statewide survey of environment issues conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California found more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already experiencing the effects of global...

Plans for nearly 5,000 new homes ringing the Orange County Great Park won preliminary approval from a divided Irvine City Council last week. Council members voted 3 to 2 last Tuesday night to OK general-plan and zoning changes as well as $40 million in...

The stock market rallied broadly Wednesday as investors pinned their hopes on the economic stimulus plan that President Obama is expected to unveil tomorrow night. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 275 points and yields on Treasury bonds...

Democrat Obama doesn't actually have the costs yet, but he wants Congress to pass his plans right now....

Fears that the European debt crisis may be coming to a head drove down stock markets around the world. The market declines were driven largely by reports out of Germany that indicated leaders there are preparing for Greece to default......

Solyndra: Two Democratic lawmakers want to question Solyndra investors about the solar company's collapse....

President Obama's latest deficit-reduction plan includes more than $1.5 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, with most of the increase coming at the expense of taxpayers making more than $200,000 (as individuals) or $250,000 (as couples). So, more of....

GOP spin-meisters have identified "class warfare" as the go-to phrase when criticizing President Obama's proposals to raise taxes on wealthy Americans (er, "job creators"). After mostly ignoring such attacks, the president is now on the offensive. On...