Federal health officials on Monday proposed adding dangerous blood clots in the leg and eight other conditions to the list of complications that Medicare won't pay to treat if they were acquired at the hospital.

You might think that with U.S. consumers buying less, the deficit would fall. Yet the trade gap in U.S. unexpectedly widened for the month of February, according to the latest numbers from the Commerce Department.

U.S. home building skidded to a 17-year low last month while consumer prices rose slightly less than expected, leaving policy-makers room to cut interest rates further to ward off a housing-led slowdown.

The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check. Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.

Soaring oil and food prices lifted inflation to record levels in Europe on Wednesday and posed a serious threat to governments worldwide amid expert warnings of social upheaval.

A growing chunk of college costs is the price of textbooks, on which the typical undergraduate spends $900 a year. So a group of college professors is calling for low-priced and free texts online. Congress is getting involved, too.

Pay plans for chief executive officers helped create the subprime-mortgage crisis by encouraging companies to take on too much risk for short-term gains, the AFL-CIO said in an analysis.

The changes in voter demographics resulting from Hurricane Katrina have greatly affected the political landscape of both the metropolitan New Orleans area and the state, said University of New Orleans political scientist Edward E. Chervenak who compared and analyzed data from Louisiana's gubernatorial elections in 2003 and 2007.

Federal health officials on Monday proposed adding dangerous blood clots in the leg and eight other conditions to the list of complications that Medicare won't pay to treat if they were acquired at the hospital.

You might think that with U.S. consumers buying less, the deficit would fall. Yet the trade gap in U.S. unexpectedly widened for the month of February, according to the latest numbers from the Commerce Department.

U.S. home building skidded to a 17-year low last month while consumer prices rose slightly less than expected, leaving policy-makers room to cut interest rates further to ward off a housing-led slowdown.

The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check. Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.

Soaring oil and food prices lifted inflation to record levels in Europe on Wednesday and posed a serious threat to governments worldwide amid expert warnings of social upheaval.

A growing chunk of college costs is the price of textbooks, on which the typical undergraduate spends $900 a year. So a group of college professors is calling for low-priced and free texts online. Congress is getting involved, too.

Pay plans for chief executive officers helped create the subprime-mortgage crisis by encouraging companies to take on too much risk for short-term gains, the AFL-CIO said in an analysis.

The changes in voter demographics resulting from Hurricane Katrina have greatly affected the political landscape of both the metropolitan New Orleans area and the state, said University of New Orleans political scientist Edward E. Chervenak who compared and analyzed data from Louisiana's gubernatorial elections in 2003 and 2007.