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By Juan A. Lozano The Associated Press The Texas insurance industry lost nearly $1.4 billion in 2008 as the state was hammered by three hurricanes as well as several other major weather events. According to figures released this week by the Texas ...

By Deb Riechmann Associated Press Writer Lawmakers took a hard look Tuesday at rules adopted in the final days of the Bush administration on how millions of Americans with 401(k) and individual retirement accounts get guidance on investing for ret...

By Jeannine Aversa The Associated Press  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress on Tuesday for broad new powers to regulate nonbank financial companies like troubled insurer American International Group whose collapse could jeopardize t...

The Texas Senate is in a contentious debate over college admission policies as a vote looms over ending automatic admission for students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The legislation as adopted in committee would cap...

By Martin Crutsinger The Associated Press The Obama administration launched a new effort Monday to end a paralysis in lending, saying it will team with investors to initially buy up to a trillion dollars of bad assets from banks that have been rel...