Government And Institutions

The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with rates on three-month and six-month bills reaching their highest levels since March.

Federal railroad regulators say an oil train that derailed and spilled 35,000 gallons of oil in northeastern Montana was traveling within recommended speeds.

A Texas company appears to have adequately addressed some of the biggest environmental issues facing its $3.8 billion pipeline from western North Dakota to Illinois, North Dakota regulators said Monday.

The head of the country's tax office, who has been banned from entering the United States due to corruption allegations, has resigned, Hungary's economy ministry said Monday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton plans later this week to propose raising capital gains taxes for some investors.

Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated).

Congress is about to decide the fate of an obscure federal agency that has become improbably tangled in presidential politics and Republican Party infighting.

Many drivers in Detroit find it tough to pay their auto insurance premiums, which are the highest in the nation at more than $5,000 a year for full coverage.

Congress' midsummer to-do list may take until Christmas to clear.

This table contains projected and actual enrollment figures for the newly eligible Medicaid population in the 30 states and the District of Columbia that have opted to expand the program under the federal Affordable Care Act.

More than a dozen states that opted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have seen enrollments surge way beyond projections.

Some answers to common questions about Medicaid and the program's expansion under the federal health care reform law: ___ WHAT IS MEDICAID AND HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN AROUND? Medicaid is a federal-state health care program for low-income and disabled people, including nursing home residents.

Congress' midsummer to-do list may take until Christmas to clear.

Utah attorneys defending a hotly contested law banning minimum prices for contact lenses argued this week that the state has the right to regulate industry price-fixing even if the products are sold to customers elsewhere.

Romania's president has refused to pass into law a series of tax cuts backed by the center-left governing coalition saying they could lead to "domestic and external risks," including unsustainable economic growth.

A pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oilsands project in northeastern Alberta has leaked, spilling about 1.3 million gallons (five million liters) of a mixture of bitumen, water and sand.

Alaska's highest court ruled Friday that an initiative seeking to restrict large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region seriously impedes a regulatory process set out in state law and is unenforceable.

Boeing is warning its passenger airline customers worldwide that flying bulk shipments of lithium-ion batteries can cause fires capable of destroying the planes.

A revised plan for a new NFL stadium in St. Louis calls for the stadium authority to seek $50 million in state tax credits from the Missouri Development Finance Board.