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WASHINGTON – The U.S. government is imposing new duties on imports of steel pipes from China, the latest sign of trade tensions between the two countries.
The case is the largest steel trade dispute in U.S. history and will affect about $2.8 bil..
Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six..
We're entering 2010 with all kinds of new gadgets, gizmos, and tech tools, but let's not forget that we've lost a few things this decade, too.
HuffPostTech took a look back at 12 things that became obsolete this decade.
From fax machines to la..
There's an old story that occasionally makes the rounds in Washington. In the 1970s, a magazine (now long defunct) named New Times reported that Sen. William Scott, a Virginia Republican, had been ranked the "dumbest" senator in a survey conducted by..
Has the government's implicit policy of rescuing "too big to fail" banks ended? Not according to the market.
As Peter Boone and Simon Johnson slyly note in this post, the market does not believe that the government has made -- or will make -- any..
WASHINGTON – Republican senators attacking the cost of a Democratic health care bill showed far different concerns six years ago, when they approved a major Medicare expansion that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits.
The i..
In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form. ..
City Controller Annise Parker made history Saturday by being elected Houston's first openly gay mayor, seizing 53.6 percent of the vote in the hotly contested race.
"This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgend..