Investigators with Toyota and the federal government were unable to make a Toyota Prius speed out of control as its owner said it did on a California freeway, according to a memorandum obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.

The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush 's No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing.

At least we can agree on one thing: let's not rewrite history. But that appears to be all that the right-wing members on the Texas State Board of Education want to do.

It all began when the board selected well-known Religious Right activists to sit on the six-member social studies curriculum review panel: David Barton of Wallbuilders and Peter Marshall of Peter Marshall Ministries. Barton, who has no credentials as a historian, runs a propaganda organization that issues a steady stream of books, videos, DVDs, pamphlets and other materials designed to "prove" the United States was founded to be Christian country.

In May 2008, as the world span towards the worst financial crisis in living memory, Matthew Lee, a senior vice-president at Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, decided to make a stand.

Republicans on the Senate banking committee said they remain open to finding a bipartisan agreement on legislation to overhaul financial regulation, but they warned the chairman, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), against trying to push a bill through too quickly..

Two U.S. cabinet members and other top officials on Friday pledged a thorough examination of allegations that monopolistic practices in agriculture are driving small farmers out of business and said they would aggressively enforce antitrust laws.

Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday attempted to win over California Republicans by attacking two of their strongest dislikes - incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and a federal government she says is broken.Fiorina is the former Hewlett-Packard CEO making her first run at public office.

Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.

A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal." The State Department said Mrs Clinton spoke to Mr Netanyahu by phone for 40 minutes to vent US frustration with ...