Feds making new rules for senior drivers

Federal health officials, after encouraging alternate sign-up methods amid the fumbled rollout of their online insurance website, began quietly urging counselors around the country this week to stop using paper applications to enroll people in health ...

WASHINGTON -- Happy or sad? Content or bored? And how many times did you smile yesterday? A panel of experts thinks Uncle Sam should be more in touch with our feelings. By gauging happiness, there'd be more to consider than cold hard cash when ...

The feds on Friday ordered New York's Metro-North commuter railroad to make major safety improvements starting with two crew members at the controls to prevent a repeat of the high-speed derailment that killed four people and injured 63 over the ...

Federal authorities have issued an emergency order instructing the Metro-North Railroad to modify its signal system. It's also been ordered to put extra operators on lines where there are major speed changes, like the curve where a passenger train ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Federal prosecutors are trying to figure out what to do with a schizophrenic Pennsylvania man accused of trying to take fake bombs through security at Kansas City International Airport on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror ...

President Barack Obama is ordering federal civilian and military agencies to nearly triple their use of renewable sources of electricity by 2020. Obama says the plan to use renewables for 20 percent of the government's electricity needs will help reduce ...

People shopping for insurance on the federal marketplace may be informed they're eligible for Medicaid and that their information is being sent to state officials to sign them up. However, states say they aren't able enroll them because they're receiving ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency, asking it to disclose efforts to stop municipalities from using eminent domain to bail out underwater homeowners and make its dealings with the financial industry more ...