WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- As Hillary Clinton starts her first foreign trip, her diplomatic role is being eroded by Joe Biden, Jim Jones and the special envoys.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday defended the hiring of lobbyists to serve in his administration despite his pledge not to do so.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Will the U.S. recession turn into a depression? Will it cause worldwide havoc? As more than 10 million Americans are now out of a job, pushing the numbers to 8 percent of the labor force by year’s end, some Wall Street critics believe the worst is yet to come.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Barack Obama's first big test is just 10 days away, and the immediate prospect is that he might duck it or even fail it.

FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Can China's $2 trillion in foreign exchange save a credit-starved world from the Crash of '08? Probably not, but Beijing will help, so long as it can help write the rules.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Watching the Dow Jones industrial average Nov. 5 may be one way to verify the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, stock analysts say.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- What comes next for the Crash of 2008? The medium-term future is bright, if the new banker-bureaucrats don't mess it up in the short term.

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- It may be a false dawn, but the initial indications are that the worst of the Crash of '08 may be over. The Asian and European markets are rising, the world's central banks have agreed to make as many dollars available as are needed, and the U.S. Treasury laid out its plans to spend its $800 billion bailout fund.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Leaders of the four big European economies -- Germany, Britain, France and Italy -- met in Paris Saturday and failed to come up with any kind of common European solution to the financial crisis that is battering their banks.