Jury selection began Wednesday in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the ...

Among the blitz of election ads flooding TV, social media and street corners, you won’t see any opposition to a ballot ...

With more catastrophes, there is a need to better align development with disaster risks and to improve how the government budgets, plans for, and responds to disasters.

More and more money is flowing into political campaigns. While candidates are using money from donors to tell their stories ...

The U.S. dollar edged higher on Wednesday ahead of the release of records from the Federal Reserve's September decision to ...

The item is known as a Continental Dollar and was minted in 1776 - the year of the United States of America’s Declaration of ...

Wotton Auction Rooms sold a Continental Currency dollar coin from 1776 during an auction last week, with a bidder taking it ...

The dollar just had its best week in two years, showing once again how dangerous it can be to bet against the U.S. currency if the rest of the world just won't let it drop.

Societe Generale's currency strategist Kit Juckes this week puzzled over why the dollar is rising again so shortly after the ...

The dollar drifted sideways on Wednesday, giving some relief to the yen and other major currencies after a sharp rally to a ...

Elsewhere, the Australian dollar was licking wounds, having slid on Tuesday to $0.6715, its lowest since Sept. 16, after ...

Corona man was sentenced to 6 years for filing false tax returns, causing a $28 million loss to the IRS, and was ordered to ...