The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, hoping to break a months-long logjam on the biggest overhaul of financial regulations since the Depression, will unveil his own proposal on Monday, without yet having a single Republican endorsement.

Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign 's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.

They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots.

March 10 -- U.S. Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about Senate Banking Committee negotiations over financial regulation legislation.

Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.

Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen.