WASHINGTON — The federal government proposed new rules on Tuesday that will give homeowners more ways to avoid foreclosure and get an accurate accounting of their monthly mortgage payments. Congress mandated changes in the rules covering the mortgage servicing industry ...

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With the federal government having for years punted on creating policies that implement comprehensive immigration reform, many states have taken it upon themselves to execute their own. Could New York be next? If so, it could go a long way ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration may turn thousands of government-owned foreclosures into rental properties to help boost falling home prices. The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Wednesday ...

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WASHINGTON — The House began debate Monday on the hard-bargained plan to avert a national financial default, even as the White House and congressional leaders struggled to round up enough votes to approve it. Here is an explanation, in questions and answers ...

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WASHINGTON — Hedge funds will face closer scrutiny under rules being approved Wednesday that seek to protect investors from risky trades and prevent another financial crisis. The rules were mandated under the financial overhaul law passed last year.

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Buffalo native and University at Buffalo Law School graduate Denise O’Donnell was sworn in last week as the Justice Department’s director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance by Attorney General Eric Holder. Meanwhile, another UB Law graduate, Virginia Seitz, awaits confirmation ...

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Rep. Louise Slaughter of Fairport and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are backing legislation that would provide America’s women in uniform with the same rights to reproductive choice as most other employees of the federal government.

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WASHINGTON — The GOP-led House is poised to reject a bill Tuesday to increase the nation’s debt limit without the big spending cuts that Republicans are demanding. The move is intended as an embarrassing reminder to Democrats that increasing the government’s ability to borrow is tied to such reductions.

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NEW YORK CITY — The federal government has sued Deutsche Bank. It alleges the bank committed mortgage fraud by repeatedly lying so that it could join a government program that insured mortgages. The Manhattan lawsuit seeks to recover some ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was barely an hour left before the midnight padlocking of government doors. In a Capitol basement meeting room, House Speaker John Boehner was telling exhausted fellow Republicans ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the clock ticking to a partial government shutdown at midnight, the top Democrat in the Senate said Friday that the White House and Republicans have agreed on a spending cut of $38 billion but that a fight over federal dollars ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top Democrat on Capitol Hill on Thursday blamed a threatened government shutdown on House Speaker John Boehner's insistence on keeping conservative policy prescriptions for the environment and abortion in a funding bill that must be passed by midnight Friday.

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