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The bill would prohibit companies from tracking children on the Internet without parental consent, restrict marketing to minors and allow parents to erase kids' personal information.

Hidden in a veto statement from the governor is an obscene message apparently directed at the lawmaker who wrote the bill.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday embraced a House bill that would give the government unprecedented power to seize bank holding companies and other large financial firms teetering on the brink of collapse and stick their competitors with the cost....

Pregnancy, acne among preexisting conditions for denying coverage, a practice reform bill targets.

Change gives sweeping new authority to FDA to regulate way food is grown, harvested, processed.

White House budget director Peter Orszag said on Sunday the administration was sticking with its goal of having the Senate and House of Representatives pass their versions of a healthcare overhaul bill before they break for their August recess.

French legislators have approved a divisive bill that allows more stores to stay open - and more people to work - on Sundays.

The Senate on Thursday approved a wide-ranging $42.9 billion measure to pay for improving U.S. border security, clamp down on illegal immigration and beef up cyber security in fiscal 2010.

Administration proposes new agency to oversee consumer finance, drawing industry resistance.

Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, ...