In Montana, he calls on a mostly receptive audience to take control of the debate, which he says is misrepresented as a ‘ruckus’ on TV.

Setting out on a series of town hall meetings to bolster support for his healthcare overhaul, President Obama insisted he was seeking his skeptics. Here in southwest Montana on Friday, he found two people who openly challenged the cost of plans now wending their way through Congress and the effect they would have on private insurers.

Congressman Joe Donnelly, a Blue Dog Democrat from Indiana, has both a personal and political stake in the matter. ‘I don’t know what’s the right thing to do yet.’

The jeering crowd at the town hall meeting with Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly was sending a clear message that it wasn’t happy with the government’s ideas on healthcare reform.

The Agriculture secretary outlines restoration and environmental goals in his first major policy address on U.S. forestland.

Restoration and conservation are the goals that will guide management of the U.S. forest system under the Obama administration, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Friday.

A multicity series hosted by Education Secretary Arne Duncan aims to ‘challenge conventional thinking’ on fixing the nation’s schools. Sharpton and Gingrich espouse common goals despite differences.

Here’s an unlikely trio for a road tour:

The small Colorado city runs a system that experts hope the nation can learn from. The innovative approach started with a nonprofit HMO that offers some free services and promotes preventive care.

At first glance, this city of 45,000 looks like so many others, a spiral of ranch homes, shopping centers and chain stores.

Without safeguards, traders in the $40-billion program could use inside information to profit — and any losses would be largely borne by taxpayers.

A controversial $40-billion government program to buy toxic securities from ailing banks has a flaw that law enforcement and financial experts say could allow traders to illegally profit from inside information.

An $80-billion pact with the pharmaceutical industry intended to advance the administration’s healthcare reform goals has instead created confusion and discord.

An $80-billion deal with the drug industry that the White House thought would add momentum to its campaign for national healthcare reform has instead provoked a political tempest, frustrating and bewildering some of the president’s most important allies.

A review committee appointed by President Obama says there is not enough money for such a venture. The panel is trying to come up with worthy missions that stay within the current budget.

NASA doesn’t have nearly enough money to put astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — and it might be the wrong place to go, anyway. That’s one of the harsh messages emerging from a sweeping review of NASA’s human spaceflight program.

The company will pay $600,000 in fines and fees, and is required to implement a plan to minimize bird deaths. Most of the 85 that died over the last five years were exposed to hydrocarbons.

ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges that it killed 85 protected birds — including hawks, owls and waterfowl. The company violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in five states over the last five years, according to the Department of Justice.

She sees familiar items being sold after discovering last week that her house had been burglarized.

A woman whose home was burglarized was shocked to spot her belongings offered at a neighbor’s yard sale.