Here's some pressure for lawmakers: If they don't reach agreement on extending soon-to-expire Bush-era tax cuts, nearly all their constituents back home will get big tax increases.

An odd scene has been playing out lately in the offices of mortgage brokers and bankers around the country.

Senate Democrats are trying to jump-start their stalled election-year jobs agenda while saving unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs across the border, an assertion that critics slammed as exaggerated and racist.

President Barack Obama pressed world leaders on Friday to join him in backing stronger rules against banking abuses. He made little headway in his call for more stimulus to keep the world economy growing.

Will the U.S. financial overhaul push big firms to transfer business to Europe? Some say no: Europe is also working on efforts to tighten up on risk-taking, though Asia and non-EU member Switzerland still remain more loosely regulated.

Bond expert Jeffrey Gundlach emphatically believes we're headed for a double-dip recession.

New York City will avoid laying off 4,400 teachers as a cost-cutting measure by instead canceling raises for teachers and principals, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday.

Venezuela on Friday reopened accounts to clients of a bank seized by the government two weeks ago.

Airplane maker and defense contractor Boeing Co. spent more than $4.1 million in the first quarter to lobby the federal government on aerospace and defense issues, according to a recent disclosure report.