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Quick Take: Kucinich Grills Lewis on Fed Emails

By  Lagan Sebert

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis took a pounding Thursday from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...

Road to Ruin: Online Lenders Fight Regulation

By  Lagan Sebert  David Murdock

Payday loan offices have been sprouting up in strip malls and on street corners across America for years before Wall Street collapsed...

Republicans Debate "Socialist" Resolution

By  Harry Hanbury

The Republican National Committee will conclude a special session with a much-anticipated vote on a resolution to re-brand the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Socialist Party."

ANP senior producer Harry Hanbury roamed the RNC meeting with a camera and spoke with committeemen and state chairs to hear their thoughts on the vote and their ideas about both parties...

Sen. Lindsey Graham Debates Himself on Detainee Torture

By  Mike Fritz  David Murdock

Senator Lindsey Graham was a passionate critic of the Bush Justice attorneys during this past summer's Armed Services Committee hearings on interrogation.

Lately, however, Graham seems to have had second thoughts on the matter...

Climate Control Debate Heats Up in the House

By  Lagan Sebert  David Murdock

The global warming debate is heating up in the House, leading to the kind of quirky moments that are a common feature of life on the Hill.

Next week, Henry Waxman (D-CA), will bring his Waxman-Markey climate-control bill before the Energy and Commerce Committee he chairs.

Just minutes after Waxman announced he was "very, very close" to agreement on the legislation, his Republican counterpart held his own press conference, using some choice words to downplay Waxman's confidence.

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Road to Ruin: Mortgage Fraud Scandal Brewing

By  Lagan Sebert

Criminal fraud may be the most underreported aspect of our current financial crisis...

VIEWPOINT: McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy

By  Mike Fritz  Harry Hanbury

In 1964, President Johnson said of Vietnam that "I don't think it's worth fighting for, and I don't think that we can get out...

Mortgage Bankers Celebrate Victory

By  Lagan Sebert

You would think this year's Mortgage Bankers Association annual meeting would be a rather solemn affair -- given the criticism the industry has endured in recent months...

The Jay Bybee Problem

By  David Murdock

How did Jay Bybee breeze through a confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February 2003? Not a single Democrat questioned Bybee at the session, and the proceedings came to a quick conclusion...

Road to Ruin: Burned by Brokers

By  Lagan Sebert  David Murdock

Economists, politicians, and pundits refer to "toxic assets" as if they are some unspeakable stew bubbling in a barrel behind an old warehouse...