Feds: 2 NY men tried to make X-ray weapon

Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding debts. The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego unsealed an indictment ...

As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous ...

U.S. stocks closed higher Tuesday after U.S. housing starts and consumer inflation rose below estimates last month as investors await the end of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.91% or ...

Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven stores across Long Island and in Virginia were charged Monday with making tens of millions of dollars by exploiting immigrants from Pakistan and the Philippines, in part by paying them using the stolen Social Security ...

http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/recession/grumblings-of-feds-taper-what-will-happen-in-wake-of-todays-fomc-meeting/2390/ The wait is over. The Federal Reserve will conclude its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting today and, of course, ...

A group known as the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS) is faulting the Obama administration for compromising workplace safety and other protections by stalling on several rules. The organization released a new report that claims regulated ...

Gold futures prices on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell Tuesday on concerns over possible scale-down of bond purchases by the US Federal Reserve.The most active gold contract for August delivery dropped 16.2 dollars, or ...

Quebec spends $500,000 to examine wasteful spending by feds Reported by The Canadian Press Change text size: + - QUEBEC - The Quebec government is spending $500,000 to create a committee to examine wasteful spending by the federal government. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank expects to slow the pace of its bond purchases later this year and bring them to a halt around mid-2014, comments that weighed on stocks and pushed bond ...