The Treasury Department has agreed to settle with a couple who had been asked to return a $27,000 disaster payment the government said it should not have granted them.
The U.S. Department of Treasury may have to absorb some of the cost of disaster aid erroneously paid to a family in Arkansas, as a U.S. senator threatens to continue blocking five nominations for high-level Treasury positions.
New government standards aim to make cribs safer by banning drop side cribs. CNN's Karin Caifa reports.
Cribs made and sold in the United States will face the toughest safety standards in the world, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday.
It gets worse for Rep. Anthony Weiner as shock jocks tweet an alleged nude photo of him. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
Fellow Democrats mounted increasing pressure Wednesday for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, a day after party leaders turned their backs on the liberal congressman embroiled in a "sexting" scandal.
In April 2009, A family spoke out after the suicide of a Marine husband and father.
A bipartisan group of senators is asking President Barack Obama to change the current "insensitive" policy of not sending condolence letters to families of service members who commit suicide.
A Senate procedural vote on Saturday failed to keep the DREAM Act from moving forward.
A bill that offers a path to citizenship to some illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children failed a procedural vote in the Senate on Saturday.
Liberal and moderate Senate Democrats said Monday they may be nearing agreement on a package of alternatives to a government-run public health insurance option in the chamber's sweeping health care bill.
Librarians across the United States are making noise about new federal restrictions on lead that could take books out of the hands of children.
President Bush may want to end the ban on offshore drilling, but you wouldn't know it from his administration's failure to obey a key directive in the 2005 Energy Act.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to beef up the federal agency that is charged with the safety of consumer products.
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The Senate immigration compromise was effectively killed Thursday, failing to pass a critical procedural hurdle.
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Arkansas Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor bluntly accused Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of lying to the Senate about replacing federal prosecutors with interim appointees and joined calls for Gonzales' resignation Thursday.
Confirmation hearings are to begin in January for Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court seat held by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday.
With a showdown over his judicial nominees looming in the Senate, President Bush demanded Tuesday that senators approve those picks without further delay.
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