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WASHINGTON — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell did not acknowledge a connection between head injuries on the football field and later brain diseases while defending the league's policies on concussions before Congress on Wednesday.

By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff  |  October 21, 2009

WASHINGTON - House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank, assembling a bill to overhaul financial regulations in hopes of preventing another economic meltdown, agreed yesterday to add consumer and community advocates to an oversight board that would monitor the credit industry.

WASHINGTON — A House panel is poised to give states new powers to protect bank consumers from fraud and abuse, a move that would deal a major blow to the financial industry as it struggles to regain its clout on Capitol Hill.