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Unionizing airport security endangers air travelers, GOP says.

EXCLUSIVE: The number of companies and labor unions winning temporary waivers from health reform has spiked to 733, more than triple the 222 granted in November 2010, and up dramatically from 30 in October.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Tyson Foods Inc. with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing “two Mexican government veterinarians responsible for certifying its Mexican subsidiary’s chicken products” passed inspection for export sales. 

Reuters reports a top Energy Information Administration official tells Congress unrest in Egypt won't hurt oil prices.

New government study shows young women now have more college education than men.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Tyson Foods Inc. with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing “two Mexican government veterinarians responsible for certifying its Mexican subsidiary’s chicken products” passed inspection for export sales. 

As Washington cheers on health reform, the nation's doctors warn the new law ignores a serious shortage in physicians. That could prove the law's undoing. 

Cyber hackers  linked with a group that calls itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" launched an attack against the Voice of America's web site and satellite t,v. stations popular on Facebook and YouTube.

An economic historian says he doesn't see an oil price spike yet hitting our wallets at the pump. 

Pimco, the huge fixed-income manager, says the analysis done by Meredith Whitney on the muni market is superficial.

Despite all the scary stories that U.S. drug research and development has plunged, U.S. drug research is alive and well. And it is kicking up a storm. At Ohio University. And that's pretty cool.

Exclusive: With investigations into the collapse of Lehman Brothers still unresolved, the firm's former CEO Dick Fuld is acting as if he doesn't have a care in the world.

FBN's Charlie Gasparino says the Nasdaq OMX Group and the IntercontinentalExchange are consulting with ratings agencies over a potential bid for the NYSE/Euronext.

Did you know that a federal judge has handed down a ruling on health reform saying the new legislation is not only constitutional, but the ruling also effectively says that your thought processes,which lead to your choices, can now be regulated by the federal government?

There has been a spike in the number of companies receiving waivers from having to comply for now with the new health reform law. 

President Barack Obama has chided the federal government  to be more energy efficient with cost-saving moves, as part of his groundbreaking initiative to transform the nation’s energy infrastructure. Doing so would save tens of billions of dollars, the Administration has argued.

The GAO targets as much as $510 billion on 583 potentially duplicative, wasteful programs overseen by roughly 182 government agencies and offices stretching across the federal government.

The Middle East is in crisis. A U.S. government shutdown over the debt ceiling looms. Public sector unions are fighting in states across the country. But author and historian Lew Lehrman reminds us  how our leaders pulled us through even darker days. First of a three-part series.

Japan needs capital for its recovery, but will the increasingly-tired capital markets help one of its most frequent visitors?

Historian Lewis E. Lehrman emailed me three articles about Lincoln, Churchill and Washington that could not have come at a better time in the history of our country.