Government And Institutions

Scientists have developed a vaccine strain that is 100 percent effective in protecting chickens from bird flu and testing is underway to see if it protects turkeys.

The Senate agreed Wednesday to take up a sweeping transportation bill a little over a week before states will face a cutoff of highway and transit aid in the middle of the summer construction season.

Senate Republicans are trying to use a must-do spending bill to advance legislation significantly rewriting landmark 2010 legislation that tightened regulation of the financial services industry.

The government says people who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year unless Congress acts.

The government spends $900 million a year to train Kentucky workers, yet just 8 percent of employers say the state's workforce has "good skills" according to a new report from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

President Barack Obama is ramping up pressure on Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank.

Defying a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday approved a bill granting states authority to regulate waste generated from coal burned for electricity.

It's getting more expensive to be an employer and small business owners say that's making it harder for them to make money.

A blue-ribbon panel says curtailing the illegal marijuana market in California should be the primary goal of legalizing the drug's recreational use in the state, and not developing another tax source.

After Ikea chests tipped over and fell and fatally injured two children, safety regulators say consumers should stop using Ikea's dressers and chests for children unless the products are mounted to a wall.

A year after Ikea chests tipped over and fatally injured two boys, the Swedish furniture giant and safety regulators say consumers should keep the furniture — 27 million chests and dressers — away from children unless the products are mounted to a wall.

Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that bad state budgeting is costing taxpayers about $170 million a year, the Democrat's latest attack on Republicans who control the Legislature as he and top GOP lawmakers prepare to resume meetings on a 3-week-old budget stalemate.

U.S. stocks were mostly lower in early trading Tuesday following weak results from IBM, United Technologies and other big companies.

Mississippi's unemployment rate dipped in June, but employer payrolls fell, as the state's job market sent mixed messages.

The Senate Finance Committee has passed a bill to renew dozens of temporary tax breaks that expired at the start of the year.

The Small Business Administration's most popular lending program could go on hold later this month if the agency reaches the statutory limit on the amount of loans it can back.

A farm group seeking to block a new law that exempts dairy and swine operations from North Dakota's anti-corporate farming legislation has successfully pushed the matter to a public vote, Secretary of State Al Jaeger said Tuesday.

After declaring an economic emergency, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's newly created economic development agency backed a plan to turn dirty plastic forks and ketchup-stained napkins into jobs.

The U.S. government says identity theft protection company LifeLock is misleading consumers about the level of protection and the timeliness of the warnings they will receive, and charges that LifeLock isn't living up to a previous $12 million settlement with regulators.

Citigroup will be refunding $700 million to consumers and will pay $70 million in fines for illegal and deceptive credit card practices.