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If you've ever watched a movie or TV show featuring a bank heist, you know the basic elements: There's the criminal planning for a big score that will set him up for life. There's the perfect plan, usually involving a tunnel into the vault and a hostage situation, or the quieter option of a demand...

I want the same kind of health insurance that Luci Baines Johnson, the youngest daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, has. The 62-year-old Johnson recently was flown by air ambulance from Dallas to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for what doctors suspect is a rare, autoimmune disorder affecting her...

This is just one of the Innovative Ways to Stimulate the Economy suggested by DailyFinance contributors. See them all. As anyone who's ever attended an event hosted by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) will attest, marijuana advocates are sometimes a bit excessive in...

Late Thursday night, the U.S. Senate approved President Obama's $3.5 trillion fiscal 2010 budget, and in the process gave the new president much of what he wanted in his first budgetary proposal. The Senate easily approved the measure, 55-43, thehill.com reported Friday, after turning back a plan...

Since co-authoring The Three Trillion Dollar War with Linda Bilmes, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has tried to help American taxpayers wrap their heads around just how much our government is spending on the conflicts and subsequent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan by doing some...