Government And Institutions

Gov. Rick Snyder signed laws Monday to spend $1.3 billion a year more to mend deteriorating roads and other transportation infrastructure, contingent on Michigan voters increasing the state sales tax to 7 percent in May.

Senate Republicans steered legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline toward an initial test vote on Monday, intent on forcing a quick veto showdown with President Barack Obama over the long-stalled project.

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Monday that he is introducing three bills designed to generate $310 billion over 10 years by closing tax loopholes.

People who owe old debts to the Social Security Administration are getting a reprieve this tax season: The federal government won't be seizing their tax refunds.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction, with three-month bills dropping to their lowest levels since late November.

The outgoing Democratic attorney general of Arkansas on Monday urged a panel reviewing elected officials' salaries to more than double his Republican successor's pay, saying the state's top attorney is paid less than most lawyers in the office.

For most of last year, President Barack Obama tempered his pitch on the economy: It may be improving, he would say, but millions of Americans had yet to benefit from the rebound.

President Barack Obama has signed into law a renewal of a federal program credited with reviving the market for insurance against terrorist attacks after its collapse in the aftermath of 9/11.

A 50-percent plunge in the price of crude oil, resulting from abundant global oil supplies and cheaper gasoline at the pump, raise critical questions about whether the Keystone XL oil pipeline is still needed or even makes financial sense.

The developers behind a sprawling sports and housing complex in the Los Angeles suburbs — whose centerpiece stadium could become home for an NFL team — expect to recoup up to $100 million in local tax dollars in the first five years of operation, an Associated Press review has found.

Highlights of the proposal to build a domed stadium that could become home for an NFL team as part of a new development: WHAT: An 80,000-seat stadium, with a separate 6,000-seat performance venue and parking, as part of a development of 2,500 residences, office space, shops, a 300-room hotel and 25 acres of parks and playgrounds.

If you're among the millions of consumers who got financial help for health insurance last year under President Barack Obama's law, better keep an eye on your mailbox.

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

California farmers struggling with drought say a U.S. Supreme Court decision favoring a tiny, threatened fish imperils their livelihoods.

With U.S. attack submarines sidelined by extended delays at government shipyards, the Navy is turning to private companies to perform more of the maintenance work on the nuclear-powered vessels.

European stock markets were higher Monday while Asian markets fell as investors digested another slide in the price of oil and strong hiring in the U.S.

Nebraska opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline will continue to fight the project, even though the state's highest court allowed its planned route to stand, an attorney for the group said Monday.

The family-hauling minivan is not dead in the eyes of Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who says he hopes to roll out a new one at next year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Some New Jersey officials have a new rallying point for lowering taxes since Mercedes-Benz announced last week that it would move its U.S. headquarters from northern New Jersey to Atlanta.

A 50-percent plunge in the price of crude oil, resulting from abundant global oil supplies, and cheaper gasoline at the pump raise critical questions about whether the Keystone XL oil pipeline is still needed or even makes financial sense.