In the last few decades, there have been surprises on each side of the energy debate.

The Treasury Department asked companies to submit bids for running the system by Wednesday and announced its plan to select winners on Friday.

In calls taped by the F.B.I., Senator Ted Stevens told an oil executive that their relationship might be investigated.

Federal prosecutors have moved to delay the sentencing of Antoin Rezko, a top fund-raiser for Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and other Illinois politicians who was convicted of influence peddling.

John McCain turned toward a more negative tone, and the Obama campaign signaled it would respond in kind.

As stocks spiraled lower around the world, the Federal Reserve considered a radical plan to jump-start the ailing financial system.

The Obama campaign released a lengthy Internet video on Monday about Senator John McCain’s role in the Keating Five scandal.

Smokers who say they were defrauded by tobacco companies that marketed “light” cigarettes faced a skeptical Supreme Court in the first argument of the court’s new term.

The suggestion of money from overseas being funneled illegally to Senator Barack Obama’s campaign carries explosive implications.

Sean Hannity was the host of “Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism,” which attacked the senator’s personal associations.

City officials across the country say they are feeling increasingly helpless as the national economic crisis eats away at the core sources of municipal revenue.

A federal appeals court postponed Congressional testimony by a former White House counsel, Harriet E. Miers, on the Bush administration’s firing of nine federal prosecutors in 2006.

An unemployed man who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, their three children, his mother-in-law and himself in their home in Los Angeles.

Lawyers for three tour guides who challenged the plan to test and license guides say a federal judge temporarily blocked the city from enforcing the testing law.

A jury ruled that the owners of New York’s Plaza Hotel can use the Plaza name on a proposed resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, despite the existence nearby of another Plaza Hotel and Casino.

The court dismissed a lawsuit filed by two opponents of the politician, Michelle Bruce, that said she disguised her sex while seeking re-election last year in Riverdale, Ga.

The finding is the latest evidence to suggest that a baby’s sleep environment is a critical factor in the risk for sudden infant death syndrome.

Business leaders fear that John McCain’s proposal to revamp taxation of health benefits would help to erode employer-sponsored health insurance.

Studies are finding that “elderspeak,” the sweetly belittling form of address that has always rankled older people, can have health consequences.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,173 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 604 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Monday:.