Sleep seems like a simple thing to do: You go to bed at night and you get up in the morning. But when a good night’s sleep can make the difference between a gold or bronze medal, a good night’s sleep takes on a whole new level of importance. U.S. …

WASHINGTON – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded an ethics investigation Thursday into the passage of deficit-reduction legislation that President Bush recently signed, a new twist in an episode of Capitol intrigue that blends election-year politics and questions of constitutional law. “Republican leaders chose to ignore House rules, precedent and …

WASHINGTON – Eager to reduce spending, the Bush administration falsely claimed savings of more than $1.3 billion in the Department of Veterans Affairs to justify cuts to health care services, congressional investigators say. The report by the Government Accountability Office is the latest to document funding woes at the VA, …

I hate to say it, but the Bush administration is in the middle of another episode that you might call Katrina II. Katrina I featured President Bush saying, “You’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie,” when everybody could see that wasn’t true. Now we’ve got the Bush administration — …

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia grew tired of a persistent heckler Tuesday and asked organizers of a legal seminar to do something about the outbursts — gently. “Don’t use force,” Scalia told American Enterprise Institute workers as they grabbed the young man’s arm and nudged him toward the …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rose Monday, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its highest in more than 4 1/2 years, as a steep fall in oil prices and stronger-than-expected earnings boosted optimism for corporate profits. Home improvement chain Lowe’s Cos. Inc. (LOW) reported solid results, while a …

Here’s the bottom line: The port deal is going through. When I said that it wouldn’t go through and that the president’s underlings who approved it should be fired, I was wrong. They’re considered the smart guys who made a smart, globalizing deal, and the port deal is going to …

NEW YORK – Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) on Tuesday said it had received another subpoena from the New York attorney general’s office in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital music downloads. The company in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said …

NEW YORK – Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications is considering a sale of the company, a source familiar with the matter said, in an auction likely to draw keen interest from media conglomerates angling for an entry into the booming U.S. Hispanic market. The source, confirming a report in The New …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Gospel music pianist Anthony Burger, who played for the popular Gaither Homecoming shows and earned Dove Award nominations for his albums of instrumental music, collapsed and died during a performance. He was 44. He died Wednesday while performing on a Gaither Homecoming cruise out of Miami, said …