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Chrysler batted 1.000 on Tuesday, clearing away two critical legal obstacles to its restructuring plan and putting the automaker on track for a merger with Italian automaker Fiat in the next few days. In a late ruling, the Supreme Court ended two days of...

Maybe radio's Rush Limbaugh was trying to provide the Rev. Pat Robertson with a little cover, when he suggested on-air that people don't need to contribute money to Haitian earthquake relief....

by Mark Silva, updated with the full run of Sunday shows The bipartisan team of former presidents recruited by President Barack Obama to spearhead private fundraising for the relief of Haitian earthquake victims promised today to ensure that the money.......

Remarks by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, as provided by the Republican Senate Communications Center I’m Kay Bailey Hutchison, United States Senator from Texas. For more than a year, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have been working to craft...

Republican candidate for governor Bill Brady's appeared last night on WTTW Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight." Below is a rough draft of the transcript of his appearance, provided by the station. Here's the video: Note how interviewer Carol Marin calls Brady....

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) took her battle against ethics charges to the airwaves Thursday night, proclaiming her innocence on a Los Angeles radio show and demanding that the details of the case against her be made public “Democracy demands........

Economist Paul Krugman has been on a roll lately. After announcing that America is in its "Third Depression", the New York Times columnist provided an encore by blaming U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for his concerns about the evils of deficit...

Repair bills for infrastructure damaged in the 2005 Bluebird Canyon landslide have been paid, with enough money left from a temporary sales tax to bulk up a disaster fund. At the July 20 meeting, the City Council approved nearly $34 million from the...

  Congress' decision Tuesday to rush $553 million to Florida schools as part of a new federal jobs  bill is creating some confusion among school districts. Should they run right out and spend it or tuck it away for the 2011-12 school, year...

R. Van Bogan, 64, is chairman-elect of the Florida Bankers Association and CEO of Florida Bank of Commerce in Orlando. Van Bogan, who assumes the chairmanship of the state bankers' group in June, spoke last week with Sentinel staff writer Richard Burnett....

Halting the financial sector's death plunge is arguably the government's most measurable achievement this year. Yet as President Barack Obama observes the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse, his administration's increasingly sunny...

The Hartford reported a second-quarter loss Wednesday of $15 million, its best quarterly showing of the past year, as investment losses narrowed and earnings from core operations beat analysts' expectations. The insurer's second-quarter loss, which...