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The Senate planned to raise money by paring back a bank dividend members see as obsolete, but the House wants to drain the Federal Reserve’s rainy-day fund instead. Critics say both ideas are wrongheaded.

The new House speaker, at his first news conference, signaled his desire to address Republican hard-liners’ complaints.

The water pouring from the station’s ceiling on Wednesday was a reminder of the sorry state of America’s mass-transit infrastructure.

An earthquake in central Oklahoma last weekend has raised fresh concern about the security of a vast crude-oil-storage complex that sits at the crossroads of the nation’s oil-pipeline network.