Day: June 10, 2008

One week after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy was quietly released from a North Carolina hospital.

Air traffic cuts, mainly at smaller airports, will not affect overall air delays as landing spots at busy airports will, for the most part, continue to be fully used.

The housing agency attributed the unexpected losses to high default rates in its portfolio of home loans.

The Supreme Court will review for the third time the case of a longtime smoker who died from lung cancer.

Then-lobbyist Jack Abramoff influenced some White House decisions by lavishing exclusive sports tickets and meals on political staff members, but there is no evidence that President Bush was involved, a congressional panel said in a draft report yesterday.

Medicare shells out $1,825 for the same home hospital bed that anyone can buy online for $754, according to government data. It pays $4,023 for a power wheelchair that retails for $2,174.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Barack Obama launched a two-week economic tour Monday by blasting John McCain’s platform as akin to a third term for President Bush.

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are turning their undivided attention to the general election this week, loading their schedules with fundraising events that will fuel their campaign through the summer. But advisers to the White House hopefuls are also working feverishly to square their carefu…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, June 9 — First lady Laura Bush made an unusual foray into the U.S. presidential campaign, praising Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) here Monday for her “grit and strength” and coming to the defense of Michelle Obama, the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling borrowers with mortgages they could not afford, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development helped fuel more of that risky lending.