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This administration has fewer confirmed nominees in place than any of its predecessors.

House Republicans hold a hearing Wednesday on a plan to rewrite Dodd-Frank, the law put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. The Republican plan is known as the Financial Choice Act.

Matthew Bryce paddled out Sunday, but by Monday he still hadn't returned. So coast guard teams launched a dramatic rescue effort — and hours later, plucked a needle from a haystack 13 miles off-shore.

Some lawmakers are pressing the state’s comptroller to divest the state’s pension fund from the fossil fuel industry. But Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said he…

A decades-old economic theory is making a comeback. The theory: tax cuts can pay for themselves. Trump administration advisers have repeated this mantra to explain their corporate tax rate cut.

The Flame Refluxer is essentially a big copper blanket: think Brillo pad of wool sandwiched between mesh. Using it while burning off oil yields less air pollution and residue that harms marine life.

A Swedish billionaire wants you to think of a better way to run the world — and get rid of problems like violence and extreme poverty.

The historically black university in Washington, D.C., is sending computer science students to study at Google's headquarters in California, as part of an effort called Howard West.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders plan to meet all week, but no agreements are finalized yet on a state budget that’s due Friday.Cuomo and the…

NPR's Linda Wertheimer and historian Andrew Bacevich discuss what U.S. foreign policy might look like under president-elect Donald Trump's administration.