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Financial reform will be the hot topic Sunday morning. CBS' “Face the Nation” has one of the more entertaining speakers on the subject: Michael Lewis, author of “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.” Other guests will be Tom...

WASHINGTON — A compromise plan for NASA moved one step closer to reality Wednesday when the Senate panel with oversight of NASA spending adopted a $19 billion budget for the agency that largely adheres to a deal worked out last week by the White...

Sentinel editor Charlotte Hall, editorial page editor Mike Lafferty and I were at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this week for a tour of the SpaceX facilities there and an interview with CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX is the California-based commercial rocket...

WASHINGTON-- Prodded by national anger at Wall Street, the Senate on Thursday passed the most far-reaching restraints on big banks since the Great Depression. In its broad sweep, the massive bill would touch Wall Street CEOs and first-time homebuyers,...

Also Saxby Chambliss, Robert Menendez, Mark Warner, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Corker and Austan Goolsbee....

By William Gibson, Washington Bureau Senators who once were tempted to expand offshore drilling are raising alarms instead about a destroyed well that is spewing a thousand barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. “The continued failure to stop...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as part of his ambitious health care proposal. Facing mounting opposition to the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski said in prepared remarks Thursday that she still did not have enough information to make a decision on whether to support the White House proposal to cancel part of NASA’s Constellation moon rocket program...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The day after President Obama visited Kennedy Space Center last week to unveil his new vision for NASA, the manager of the moon program that Obama wants to kill told his team to draw up plans in case Obama fails to win congressional...

By Mark K. Matthews and Robert Block, Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON — President Obama's grand plans for NASA appear in big trouble. Three weeks after Obama told an audience at Kennedy Space Center that he wants to land astronauts on an asteroid by 2025,...

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., will be a guest on CNN's “State of the Union” this weekend. The topics will be homeland security and the Times Square plot. The other guests will be Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and John Brennan, assistant to the...

Republican wants real reform of the Fannies too; Obama says healthcare helps small business....