Government And Institutions

Generic versions of the Allergan's top-selling Alzheimer's drug, the subject of a court battle over the company's sales tactics, are now on the market.

Court officials say Connecticut is now the most expensive place to die in the U.S. — at least for the wealthy — because of hefty new fees for settling estates.

A year after Colorado's marijuana tax for schools came in far short of its goal, the fund is setting records and has accrued more money in the first five months in 2015 than it did for all of 2014.

California lawmakers want to take more time considering a proposal crafted in response to a deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley.

Whistleblowers who sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. can seek more evidence of fraud against the U.S. government after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Christine McCormack quit her job as a restaurant manager two years ago to care for her 88-year-old mother-in-law.

Gov. Scott Walker signed the next Wisconsin state budget into law on Sunday, brushing aside complaints from his own party about the $73 billion spending plan and fulfilling his promise to get it done before he announces he is running for the Republican nomination for president.

The U.S. government ran a budget surplus in June, leaving the budget deficit so far this year running under last year's level.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills unchanged while rates on six-month bills rose to the highest point in two weeks.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf met in private Monday with leaders of the Republican majorities in the Legislature, but both sides reported no breakthrough in what has become a two-week budget standoff.

A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy to stop the expanding industry.

Following a deadly listeria outbreak in ice cream, the Justice Department is warning food companies that they could face criminal and civil penalties if they inadvertently poison their customers.

House Republicans called for a brief extension of highway and mass transit funding Monday night to prevent a reduction in scheduled construction as early as this summer.

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

The Treasury Department and other government agencies are unable to pinpoint a single reason for a period of extreme volatility that occurred in the market for Treasury securities on Oct. 15 last year.

The Treasury Department releases federal budget data for June at 2 p.m. Eastern on Monday.

Greece will have another, possibly its last, chance Sunday to convince skeptical European creditors it can be trusted to enact wide-ranging economic reforms that would safeguard its future in the euro.

Gov. Bruce Rauner says his new plan to address Illinois' underfunded pension systems would save billions of dollars annually and be "fair and reasonable" to workers and taxpayers.

Fifteen years after North Dakota began funding research aimed at revitalizing growth in the state's lignite industry, all but one project has been abandoned or yielded little more than expensive studies that have failed to find a clean and cost-effective use for the state's plentiful but low-grade coal, data obtained by The Associated Press show.

An iconic Texas restaurant chain will not allow the open carrying of guns on its properties, and industry experts say other restaurants will likely take the same stand against a new state law legalizing the practice in many public places.