Economy contracting more slowly, but still far from an actual recovery, analysts say

Check out recovery.gov to see how stimulus money is being spent

About 500 jobs will be lost at headquarters in Oregon

Removal of adult category connected to murder of a masseuse this spring

Book comes out next year and McCain’s running mate also up for re-election in Alaska in 2010

President demands Congress act by Memorial Day on Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights

President announces new plan permitting jobless to return to college and still collect unemployment

Dozens of homes destroyed in California as flames near edge of city limit

Congressman repeats opposition to transferring Gitmo detainees to Virginia

About 3,100 workers affected by the move

Cantor joins other GOP members in saying no to relocating or releasing Gitmo detainees in America

Justice Department nears end of probe into Bush administration lawywers who approved harsh interrogations

Art deco painting also stolen Friday from the Scheringa Musuem for Realism in the Netherlands

In all, at least 4,281 members of the U.S. military have died since the war in Iraq began in March 2003

Nation’s third largest automarker filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday

Job cuts will come at Ohio headquarters

Obama: this is not a sign of weakness

President plans to double the budget of key science agencies over the next decade

Detroit automaker surviving on $15.4 billion in government loans

GM to scrap Pontiac

State government offices in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia to close Monday

Trustee unraveling Ponzi scheme sent letters to 223 investors, ordering them to return money they withdrew before scheme collapsed

As Culpeper’s congressman led House Republicans to a blanket “no” vote for the president’s budget Thursday night, Virginia’s Democratic delegation in the Senate supported the financial plan while calling out the GOP for an “irresponsible” past.

Minority whip repeats GOP emphasis on creating jobs by cutting taxes

The Obama administration was finishing work on a plan to give more financial aid to two Detroit automakers in return for tough cost-cutting measures that will ensure the companies’ survival.

House GOP whip announces the ‘Responsible Homeowners Act’

FBI serves legal papers from Securities and Exchange Commission

Three witnesses identified same man as the murderer

Grand jury indicted Alfred Dowe on 11 counts of obtaining money by false pretenses

Rep. Eric I. Cantor’s personal ties to the mortgage industry helped him play a leading role in this month’s congressional debate over the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.