Delphi Corp. has announced it will use an $89.3 million federal stimulus grant to help develop systems for electric-drive vehicles at a vacant manufacturing site in Kokomo.
The federal deficit for the first two months of the new budget year is piling up faster than last year's record imbalance.
A man turned himself in after being charged with threatening federal officials, allegedly making several threatening calls against the chief U.S. prosecutor and a judge in Puerto Rico, the FBI said Monday.
Federal employees whose regional costs of living entitles them to higher compensation will see no increase in their "locality pay" percentages next year, President Barack Obama informed Congress on Monday.
Federal officials plan to spend $11.7 million for about 5,000 acres of private land in national monuments, forests and recreation areas in three Western states.
Federal recovery money that remains unused since hurricanes Katrina and Rita should be spent on blight remediation and infrastructure repairs in New Orleans, House Speaker Jim Tucker said Thursday.
The federal deficit hit a record for October as the new budget year began where the old one ended: with the government awash in red ink.
The federal deficit is expected to hit $150 billion for the first month in the new budget year, headed toward another $1 trillion-plus tide of red ink. Economists worry such deficits could push up interest rates, adding a further drag on the fragile economic recovery.
Since the resumption of capital punishment in 1977 after a roughly 10-year hiatus, only three men have been put to death by the federal government, all for murder and all in the civilian justice system. The last military execution was in 1961.
Democratic lawmakers are seeking to stir up competition by stripping health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws, although experts shrug off the effort as largely symbolic.
Wendi Goldsmith, president of a “green” design and construction firm, is no stranger to landing government contracts, but she’s not expecting a windfall from the billions flowing into green businesses as part of the $787 billion federal stimulus package.
A federal judge challenged the backers of California's voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday to explain how allowing gay couples to wed threatens conventional unions, a demand that prompted their lawyer to acknowledge he did not know.
A federal judge is considering whether to order the sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban to produce their internal campaign records to lawyers now suing to overturn the law.
The federal deficit surged higher into record territory in August, hitting $1.38 trillion with one month left in the budget year.
A same-sex marriage lawsuit that created a public rift between President Barack Obama and his gay supporters was dismissed Monday on a technicality.
A judge has set a Jan. 11 trial date for a federal lawsuit challenging California's gay marriage ban.
A federal border patrol officer has been arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands and charged with beating up a romantic rival.
The federal deficit climbed higher into record territory in July, hitting $1.27 trillion with two months remaining in the budget year.
Suspended NFL star Michael Vick ended his federal dogfighting sentence Monday, freeing him to lobby for a return to the field.
Three gay-friendly legal groups have asked to be part of a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban — a request that drew an icy reception from the activists behind the case.
President Barack Obama's congressional allies want to create a powerful insurance commissioner to oversee medical plans nationwide. State regulators say it would duplicate what they do without better protecting consumers. Conservatives bemoan the big government mentality.
The legal groups that have led the effort to legalize same-sex marriage in California are asking to be part of a federal lawsuit against the state's gay marriage ban.
A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gay rights groups expressed dismay with the Obama administration Friday over its championing of the Defense of Marriage Act, a law the president pledged to try to repeal while on the campaign trail.
Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered increased security for some abortion clinics and doctors in the wake of the slaying of Dr. George Tiller.
Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon as Lieberman spoke about amendments he planned to offer to the bill. Lieberman asked for an additional moment to finish -- a routine request -- but Franken refused to grant the time.
A few weeks ago I posted this on a comment about Welfare and how its an 'evil' of the world.
The Department of Labor had a web chat with OSHA's Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab earlier this week about changes within this Federal regulatory body.
OTTAWA — Canada's military police complaints commission could investigate the Afghan prisoner abuse case revealed by Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the commission counsel said Thursday (By Juliet O'Neill)
Congressional negotiators have come to an agreement on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government after the middle of this month. This spending bill would fund nine Cabinet agencies and all the programs within them for the fiscal year that began in October.
Government workers will get a 1.5 percent nationwide increase in base pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in locality pay.
More than 20 percent of the nation's water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has always maintained he wants the public to hear all of the undercover government recordings in his federal corruption case, and now maybe he'll get his wish.
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within" – General Douglas MacArthur.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of being a Qaeda terrorist, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held in secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and then moved to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay.
I live on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door is a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I am happy here.
It's been an ugly few years for the United States Postal Service.
Arkansas church leader Tony Alamo finally receives sentencing for multiple federal charges, including rape and transporting minors across state lines for illegal purposes.
California's compassionate use law was passed over 10 years ago. The intended purpose of the legislation was to allow patients who would medically benefit from the use of medicinal marijuana, to grow or purchase the herb for their own use.
Multinational corporations are fighting to preserve language in a spending bill that would weaken a ban on federal contracts. Only a handful of companies could benefit from the language, but they could receive a windfall if the Senate legislation is approved.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
Why did the Federal Communications Commission Allow this to happen on or about 27 October 2009.
I was tweeted a news story this weekend and read with absolute astonishment about a petition started by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich that aims to declare healthcare a civil right.
Once again, our President is campaigning... for health care reform? No... For an issue related to Iraq and/or Afghanistan? No...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In one of the largest stimulus awards to state housing agencies, the U.S. Treasury announced on Friday $284 million would go to California, bringing the nationwide total since May to $3.12 billion.
Democrats are looking for ways to exclude a bevy of big groups from their proposal to tax so-called Cadillac health insurance plans. So far the list of groups seeking exclusions include labor unions, firefighters, coal miners and other high risk occupations.
An independent research group has determined that U.S. housing prices will stabalize in the first quarter of 2010. Good..
NEW YORK - Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of Galleon Group, and former directors at a Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund were among six people charged in a $20 million insider trading scheme federal prosecutors called the biggest ever involving hedge funds.
The federal budget deficit has surged to an all-time high of $1.42 trillion as the recession caused tax revenues to plunge while the government was spending massive amounts to stabilize the financial system and jump-start the economy.