WASHINGTON — Car shoppers have until Monday night to take advantage of lucrative Cash for Clunkers rebates from the government, and the Obama administration is hoping for a smooth ending to a program that has spurred auto sales but created headaches
WASHINGTON — Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over New York's Hudson River, an air traffic controller was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is developing plans to wind down the popular Cash for Clunkers program and could announce by Friday when the incentives will no longer be available.
PHILADELPHIA — More than two dozen of the city's worst schools are being put under the microscope as education officials begin assessing which ones will be essentially shut down and reopened next year with new staffs and new academic focus.
WASHINGTON — The White House plans to announce the federal deficit will be about $262 billion less than officials predicted earlier this year, but it still will total a massive $1.58 trillion and pose a tremendous obstacle for a president seeking po
MIAMI — Bermuda was under a hurricane watch Thursday as Hurricane Bill approached, slightly weakened but with winds still near 120 mph (193 kph), while dangerous waves and riptides were likely along most of the eastern U.S. coast over the weekend.
WASHINGTON — The CIA hired private contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, but a spokesman says it never resulted in the capture or killing of any terrorist suspects.
PORTLAND, Ore. – From the mid-'80s to the late '90s, the number of youths in detention nationwide skyrocketed, with average daily populations ballooning from 13,000 to 28,000 in about a decade.
