Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is expected to be tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be the next secretary of the U.S. Treasury, reports NBC News.

He has been called the “scariest guy in town” and “the Democrats’ Eliot Ness.”

After pumping more than a half million dollars into overturning gay marriage in California, Jim Dobson’s Focus on the Family has fallen on hard economic times.

Apparently, a billionaire has the prerogative to change his mind.

Back in January, when Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was still a long-shot for the Democratic nomination, CBS anchor Katie Couric asked him what books he would bring to the White House.

The journey could not have been less likely.

Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who played a central role in his life, died in Hawaii early today.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history, was found guilty Monday of lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy contractor looking for political favors.

Federal employees are reportedly celebrating the forced resignation of U.S. Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch.

With exactly two weeks to go before the election, Barack Obama has announced he will leave the campaign trail for two days to visit his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii.

Despite all the talk of reforming Washington, the revolving door between government and industry continues whirling.

A German citizen who calls himself Clark Rockefeller has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter off a Boston street in July, in the latest chapter of a story involving aliases, international intrigue and a missing couple.

Lobbying firm Davis Manafort was the top search term on Muckety last week.

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is going to great lengths to ensure that Hurricane Gustav isn’t a replay of Katrina.

As NBC’s commentator for women’s gymnastics, Bela Karolyi beat the drum all week arguing that members of China’s Olympics team were under-aged. Chances are, he will turn out to be right, but he has little credibility because of his own conflicts of interest.

Former U.S. Rep. Robert W. Ney will be a free man Saturday after serving 17 months of a 30-month federal sentence on political corruption charges. And then, he is expected to embark on a new career with the Talk Radio News Network.

The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and who is being held on charges of abducting his 7-year-old daughter, has no inherited wealth, as it turns out, let alone any tie to the late oil baron’s family.

Conservative columnist Robert Novak announced his immediate retirement Monday after being told his prognosis for a malignant brain tumor was “dire.”

Police watched Clark Rockefeller surreptitiously for a day before luring him out of a waterfront apartment in Baltimore, Md. with an elaborate ruse.

Clark Rockefeller led people to believe he was the scion of the wealthy Rockefeller clan.