Government And Institutions

As part of an overall force reduction due to federal budget constraints, the U.S. military has been forced to cut members. Here’s what you need to know about the Reduction in Force.

Five years after the immaculate recovery declared by Vice President Joe Biden in the summer of 2010, the U.S. still faces dismal job and wage growth. What could fix all that? For the Democrats to stop their identity crisis and return to their economic growth plans built on their small government, low-tax platforms.

What is missing in action in the debate about income inequality?

The humble house call is being put to the test to see if it can improve care and cut costs for some of Medicare's frailest patients — and new data suggests it can work.

In case you're not following this budget drama on the hill, the Grand Old Party has folded like a cheap suit. It seems right now they are no more interested in cutting spending, than I am in cutting carbohydrates.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is big on talking about the free-market, but his firm needs a lot of taxpayer help to survive.

You've Got ... Red Ink? The embattled U.S. Postal Service said its second-quarter loss jumped by nearly three-fold to $2 billion in the second quarter.

Household spending has recovered but too many of those dollars go to pay for imported oil, consumer goods from China and autos from Japan.

The president will drop from previous proposals any effort to curb the rapidly escalating problems with social security: payouts rising more rapidly than the money flowing into the trust funds.

Celebrating the temporary respite – and a contrived one at that – from the growing debt belies a number of problems.

China continues to display an appetite for U.S. government debt, expanding its holdings of Treasurys to a record of $1.317 trillion in November.

A new government report says one of NASA's two commercial suppliers faces an uphill struggle in resuming deliveries to the International Space Station.

Greece's left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras says he will not form an "unnatural" grand coalition government with conservative rivals if he wins Sunday's general election, despite polls suggesting that neither party can score an outright victory.

A newly formed highway construction company has landed more than $27 million in new government projects across the Carolinas despite its deep ties to a discredited North Carolina paving firm barred from bidding on state contracts.

Horse track operators and breeders are concerned the good times might be trotting to a close as some states move to rein in a lucrative subsidy that's helped prop up their long suffering-industry.

Boeing already has the Dreamliner.

Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp. has won a major contract to build a new combat vehicle to replace a large share of the military's Humvee troop carriers.

Virginia residents have been billed tens of thousands of dollars to pay for donations the state's most powerful electricity company has made to politically connected charities, according to company records obtained by The Associated Press.

Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how hard it could be for Republicans to dismantle the program.

Black Mercedes-Benz R-Class SUVs rolled down the AM General assembly line Tuesday interspersed with white MV-1 wheelchair-accessible vans as workers began producing vehicles for the German automaker, a scene company officials believe is a sign of hope for the northern Indiana auto plant where Hummer H2s once were made.