Herbert Frank York, a nuclear physicist who helped create the first atomic and hydrogen bombs, has died.

When President Obama signs the much-heralded credit card reform bill, he will be delivering a major coup for the National Rifle Association.

Two sides of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s personality are revealed in recently released transcripts of two interviews he gave on the same subject under oath last year.

Sen. Max Baucus has emerged as an unlikely kingpin.

On Wall Street, Laurence D. Fink is an insider’s insider, the guy firms and countries go to when they’re in a jam.

The court-appointed trustee of Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm is going after the millionaire middlemen who acted as witting or unwitting accomplices to Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Financier and philanthropist J. Ezra Merkin assented Tuesday to step down as manager of his hedge funds and to place them into receivership.