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About six in 10 Americans approve of a tax package passed by the Senate on Wednesday that extends George W. Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy as well extending unemployment benefits and cutting payroll taxes, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

Online background checker Intelius duped hundreds of thousands of consumers through deceptive advertising tactics that earned it more than $50 million in lucrative commissions from third-party vendors, a two-year investigation by the Washington State Attorney General's office has found. The...

Has the danger for children from social networking sites, cell phones and the web grown strong enough that it's again time for the government to step in to set some rules? Senators asked those questions today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee panel on Consumer Protection. A decade...

Former Tenn. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., who made $2 million last year as a vice-chairman at Merrill Lynch, will not run for U.S. Senate from New York, ending nearly two months of flirtation, speculation and not a little mud-slinging. In an op-ed to be published Tuesday in The New York Times, the former...

Things are about to get real interesting up in Connecticut. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that CEO Linda McMahon is resigning in order to run for Connecticut's U.S. Senate seat. Yes ladies and gents, it appears that the McMahon family is aiming to add a senator to its roster....

One can easily imagine that conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh is on a flight to New Zealand right about now. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's defection Tuesday to the Democratic Party puts the Democrats one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and if Sen. Norm Coleman(...