Earlier this week, President Obama decided to refocus his agenda on Americans jobs, especially small businesses.

AP – A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti.

AFP – The 700-billion-dollar US government effort to rescue the financial system has failed to meet key goals such as sparking lending and curbing risky activities by banks, a special auditor said Sunday.

In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.

AP – Trimming budget deficits is as important as creating jobs to sustain the economic recovery, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

President Barack Obama is essentially grounding efforts to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more, according to officials familiar with the plans.

AP – The economy grew for a second straight quarter from October through December, posting a better-than-expected 5.7 percent annual rate, the fastest quarterly pace since 2003.

Car-dependent communities have statistically higher rates of mortgage foreclosure

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Alabama and University of Florida, sponsored by the Natural Resource Defense Council , shows that car-dependent communities have statistically higher rates of mortgage foreclosure than communities with multiple transportation options, such as transit, biking and walking.