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By Steven Rosenfeld Wisconsin’s recall-facing Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies received a stunning rebuke from a federal court on Friday that ruled

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Former AIG CEO Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg By Arthur D. Postal The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Monday asked a federal court in Manhattan

By Shawn Pogatchnik Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax. The government said less than half of the country’s 1.6 million

By Gordon Cox The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us — the

By Hiroko Tabuchi TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a

The collapse of Enron occurred in October 2001, one month after the towers fell on 9/11. It’s been more than ten years now, and we