Kellogg, Brown & Root, the engineering, construction, and services company, and its former parent, Halliburton, have agreed to pay a combined $579 million to settle US criminal and civil allegations that KBR bribed Nigerian government officials to obtain contracts.  &nbs...

I knew where I'd surely find the great inauguration party: in that glorious Victorian cupcake of a ballroom where partygoers celebrated Abraham Lincoln's second swearing-in, up on the third floor of what is now the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. This year it was called the "Lincoln 2.0 Ball."...

W hen Franklin Roosevelt was looking for someone to head the new agency created to prevent the kind of corrupt Wall Street practices that had brought the stock market and the economy to their knees, he didn't turn to a pinstriped banker or a fancy-pants lawyer or even a hard-bitten prosecutor. He......

Senate staffers working on confirmations are looking hard into the backgrounds of President-elect Barack Obama's nominees, poring over their past writings and speeches searching for controversial statements and positions....

Senate staffers working on confirmations are looking hard into the backgrounds of President-elect Barack Obama 's nominees, poring over their past writings and speeches searching for controversial statements and positions....

Third of three parts The contracts were flying out of AIG Financial Products. Hardly anyone outside Wall Street had ever heard of credit-default swaps, but by early 2005, investment banks were snapping them up to insure all kinds of deals in case of default, fueling one of the great financial boo......

Last month, Sen. Barack Obama turned to James A. Johnson, a former Fannie Mae chief executive and Washington insider since the Carter administration, to lead the vetting of potential running mates for the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee....

Last month, Sen. Barack Obama turned to James A. Johnson, a former Fannie Mae chief executive and Washington insider since the Carter administration, to lead the vetting of potential running mates for the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee....

NEW YORK, March 10 -- Shock, devastation, disappointment, and, yes, retributive glee -- those were some of the emotions on the streets of New York Monday as Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer all but acknowledged his involvement in a prostitution ring....

And now, the winners of the In the Loop contest to guess the real target of that suspicious fire last month in Vice President Cheney's office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building....