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The TARP’s days of bailing out big banks will soon be over, the administration announced last month. But the TARP lives on and will be with us for years to come.

After federal regulators accused the University of Phoenix of systematic enrollment abuses in 2004, the school's parent company paid out nearly $10 million to resolve the allegations. Phoenix allegedly had broken the law by tying recruiters' pay to enrollment numbers, U.S. Department of Education i...

Last week, the largest natural gas lease holder in New York state issued two slightly different messages about its plans for drilling in the watershed that provides 90 percent of New York City's drinking water...

On Saturday, the Obama administration transferred six Chinese Muslim detainees from Guantanamo to the Pacific island nation of Palau. The six men are among a group of ethnic Uighur detainees whom the Obama administration has decided are not a security risk, but can’t quite figure out what to do with...

At the first public hearing of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's review of natural gas drilling, one speaker summed up the sentiment of many in sleepy Sullivan County, which is likely to see much of the drilling in the state...

The United Nations cannot account for tens of millions of dollars provided to the troubled Afghan election commission, according to two confidential U.N. audits and interviews with current and former senior diplomats...

For now, New York City’s water appears to be safe from drilling. Responding to mounting concerns that chemicals from natural gas drilling could contaminate drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corporation declared it will not drill in the city’s upstate watershed, the pristine water source that supplie...

Pundits and politicians from both sides of the fence have been hollering themselves blue about a potential public health care option. Instead of relying on private insurers, the government would insure people itself. The idea is that if a government-run option were offered to compete with private in...

Last week, the House Financial Services Committee voted to establish a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The agency would have broad authority – but thanks to fierce lobbying, it’ll also have big gaps. ...

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking why contractors under criminal investigation were able to obtain millions of dollars in work from the $787 billion federal stimulus program...

Employers in Connecticut and South Dakota face hefty tax increases in the midst of a recession because their states' unemployment insurance trust funds ran dry last week. The two states, like many others, have solvency taxes -- a special tax increase that kicks in when their trust fund balance goes...

The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government...

New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Presbyterian Hospital: A 32-year-old man with cystic fibrosis is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis in the midst of a worsening pandemic caused by the H1N1 flu vi...