Elaine S. Povich

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to try to expand its regulatory power to Chicago`s stock-related futures contracts, blamed by many critics for the Oct. 19 stock market...

Six months later, Black Monday is still referred to in brutish physical terms of disaster, like war, hurricane or avalanche. But unlike a typical emergency, the government is holding back...

By agreeing to accept about 2,700 Cuban prisoners held in American jails, Cuba sought to improve its human rights image and to continue talks on allowing Cuban radio stations to...

Negotiations over a federal budget plan have obscured to many what is really the main issue: Whose taxes are likely to go up? Whether the White House and Congress can...

Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican from the mostly Democratic state of Pennsylvania, has often been at odds with the Reagan administration and has just as often withheld his support until...

A panel of the American Bar Association, in an unusual divided vote, rated Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork as ''well qualified'' for the high court, but the split decision gave...

The time has come for Japan to stop talking and start implementing ''drastic policies'' to expand its domestic demand and open its markets to American products, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton...