AMC's Emmy-award winning TV show "Mad Men" depicts advertising executives in the 1960s, including their ubiquitous smoking, which occurs in practically every scene in every show. Now "Mad Men" is holding a celebrity auction on E-Bay in which it will sell off a walk-on role in the show to benefit lung cancer research and treatment at the City of Hope National Medical Center.

Health insurance companies are continuing to charge double-digit increases in premium rates, even though profits are already skyrocketing and executives are raking in generous pay packages.

Elizabeth Warren has been a strong and consistent critic of the failures of the Home Affordable Modification Program in her position on the