DOE: Budget cuts may slow nuclear waste cleanup
Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country — including one in Washington state where waste tanks may be leaking 1,000 gallons ...
Rapper Ja Rule in NYC jail with July release date
Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule is in a New York City jail with a July release date. The 36-year-old rapper left a state ...
Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot
Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how ...
Cuts imminent, Senate rejects stopgap efforts
Squabbling away the hours, the Senate swatted aside last-ditch plans to block $85 billion in broad-based federal spending reductions Thursday as ...
Obama chides GOP for killing plan to address cuts
President Barack Obama is chiding Senate Republicans for blocking a Democratic plan to replace automatic spending cuts that are set to kick in Friday.
Dow edges near record, then sputters; stocks down
It came oh so close. The Dow Jones industrial average came within 15 points of its all-time high Thursday afternoon. But the momentum petered out, and ...
A sturdier US economy can withstand budget cuts
As economic policy goes, experts say, the automatic spending cuts that kick in Friday are — to use a technical term — bone-headed. Fortunately, the ...
GOP kills Senate Democratic plan to replace cuts
Senate Republicans have killed a plan backed by President Barack Obama to replace $111 billion in government spending cuts this year with a new ...
FDA Commissioner: budget cuts mean less safe food
Fewer food safety inspections and an increased risk to consumers will result from the lack of a new 2013 budget from Congress and the upcoming ...
Iowa meatpacking town fears impact of federal cuts
Automatic federal budget reductions set to take effect Friday could fall like a meat ax on the small Iowa town of Columbus Junction, where a sprawling ...
Egypt invites IMF to resume loan talks
Egypt's government said Thursday that it invited an International Monetary Fund delegation to the country in March to resume talks on a $4.8 billion ...
New crisis looms as budget cuts hit US on Friday
Billions of dollars in harsh budget cuts are hitting the U.S. government on Friday, and officials are conceding that last-minute moves by both ...
India's budget to push growth, rein in inflation
India's finance minister Thursday unveiled a national budget with a promise to put Asia's third largest economy back on a path of high growth and to ...
ADB president nominated to head Japan central bank
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe vowed to push ahead with more aggressive monetary easing as he Thursday nominated Haruhiko Kuroda to head the ...
Lew set to start at Treasury as budget cuts loom
Jacob Lew is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday as Treasury secretary and will have to hit the ground running. He is taking over the job just a day ...
Republican losses obscure US drift to right
Republican angst over presidential election losses obscures the fact that many conservative ideals have prospered for decades. Conservative efforts ...
Senate Dems' bill light on deficit cuts in 2013
White House-backed legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would raise the deficit through the end of the ...
As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next?
With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a ...
Argentina, creditors face off in NY over debts
The Republic of Argentina squared off with a group of U.S. hedge funds Wednesday in a court case that has the potential to unravel deals the South ...
DHS official retires after immigrants are freed
The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his retirement the same day the ...
Slovenia's troubled government ousted
Slovenia's parliament ousted Prime Minister Janez Jansa and his conservative government Wednesday, while designating a financial expert from the ...
Americans yawn at budget cut hype
President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a ...
Italy turmoil raises questions about ECB backstop
Why has Italy's muddled election result spooked global investors so much? Because it raises unsettling questions about the availability of the ...
No ruckus about Medicare cuts in sequester
Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions. But they're not ...
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