Washington (CNN) - Upwards of $1 million a day is expected to be spent on health care television ads this week, as interest groups work overtime to try to influence Congress before the House votes on President Obama's top domestic priority. Health care commercials all but vanished from the ai... Read more...
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a $10 billion measure to extend benefits for unemployed workers and fund road projects after Sen. Jim Bunning agreed to end his filibuster. The 78-19 vote on the 30-day extension known as H.R. 4691 came minutes after the Kentucky Republican m... Read more...
(CNN) -- A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's Ryukyu Islands early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Soon after the 5:31 a.m. (3:31 p.m. Friday ET) quake, Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory, recommending that people on the Okinawa Islands evacuate from the... Read more...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A Haitian judge Wednesday freed eight of 10 Americans detained in Haiti and said they can leave the country immediately, a lawyer involved in the case told CNN. Although the Americans are released, there was no bond required. They are being released on their word.... Read more...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- In the central plaza, there was once an orgy of music, street dancing and revelry unmatched by any other nation in the Americas, Haitians say. But where there was joy now sits a vast settlement of people left without loved ones, without homes, without life's be... Read more...
Friday night's star-studded "Hope for Haiti" telethon has raised a record-breaking $58 million, with more donations continuing to pour in from around the world, the benefit's organizers announced Saturday. The preliminary figure is a record for donations made by the public through a disaster re... Read more...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The tax man has gotten a lot more aggressive in slapping liens on taxpayers who are seriously delinquent in their payments. In fact, the Internal Revenue Service issued 475% more liens last year than it did in 1999. But it hasn't been doing so judiciously, which is... Read more...
Washington (CNN) -- A man flashed bogus credentials and was permitted to reach the outer office of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over New Year's weekend, agency officials confirmed Friday. Sebelius was not in the building during the incident January 2, but a spokeswoman ... Read more...
The State Department on Thursday is directing its embassies around the world to include information on whether a person has a U.S. visa when they send special cables to Washington containing information on potentially suspect individuals, CNN has learned. The order comes in the wake of a fail... Read more...