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Lew signals support for tax code rewrite
Jacob Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, pledged to work with Congress on a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code while ...
Boehner voices skepticism on budget prospects
House Speaker John Boehner expressed doubts Wednesday that the Republican-led House and Democratic-controlled Senate could reach agreement on a budget ...
Do tax increases kill jobs? Minn. soon to find out
Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays ...
Barry Bonds seeks dismissal of felony conviction
A lawyer for Barry Bonds urged a federal appeals court on Wednesday to toss out the slugger's obstruction of justice conviction, saying a rambling ...
French, Mali troops recover explosives in Gao
French soldiers on Wednesday recovered an enormous stash of explosives that authorities believe radical Islamic fighters were using to make bombs for ...
McKeon says many to blame for DOD's fiscal dilemma
There is plenty of blame to go around for the pending automatic budget cuts that have put the U.S. military on the brink of a readiness crisis, the ...
Russian arms trader: Syria shipments will continue
Russia will keep supplying weapons to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime despite the country's escalating civil war, the head of Russia's state ...
THE RESET: Obama agenda has many missing pieces
As most recent presidents have done, President Barack Obama hit the road to rally public support for his State of the Union wish list from the night ...
US retail sales rise 0.1 pct. after tax increase
Americans barely spent more last month at retail businesses and restaurants after higher taxes cut their paychecks. The small increase suggests ...
Analysis: Minimum wage plan a new test for Obama
If anything illustrated President Barack Obama's new sense of self-confidence, it was his State of the Union call for an increase in the national ...
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech
While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th ...
Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back his plans
Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government ...
Signs of unity in a divided Congress
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night produced fleeting moments of bipartisanship in a divided Congress.
Ohio school board votes to keep Jesus portrait up
An Ohio school district decided Tuesday night to keep a portrait of Jesus hanging in the school where it's been 65 years, denying a federal lawsuit's ...
January surplus shrinks 2013 US budget deficit
The federal government reported a rare surplus for January and is on track to run the lowest annual deficit since President Barack Obama took office.
Top officers issue urgent warning over budget cuts
Pending automatic spending cuts have put the U.S. armed forces on a path to being so unprepared for combat that it would be "immoral" to use them, the ...
Group: Yemen failed to probe killing of protesters
An international human rights group accused Yemen on Tuesday of failing to investigate the 2011 killing of 45 anti-government protesters during the ...
Courts upholds $28 million award in Skywalk case
A federal court on Monday dealt a blow to the business arm of a northern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk by upholding a $28.5 million ...
AP Exclusive: Inmate lawsuits cost Calif. $200M
Gov. Jerry Brown has begun aggressively challenging federal court oversight of California's prison system by highlighting what he says is a costly ...
Obama to revive populist message in Tuesday speech
Reviving his populist re-election message, President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer ...
Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be ...
Trucking company to pay $50,000 in major EEOC case
A trucking company will pay $50,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, a token payment to avoid trial in a closely watched case that has sharply ...
White House warns of food safety cuts
Impending across-the-board budget cuts could mean fewer government food safety inspections and higher prices for meat at the grocery store. A White ...
Senate Democrats craft bill to avert budget cuts
Top Senate Democrats have prepared a plan to slice the Pentagon's budget by $3 billion a year in an attempt to avoid far steeper cuts that defense ...
Obama to submit budget in mid-March
An administration official says President Barack Obama plans to submit his 2014 budget plan to Congress in mid-March. The budget was supposed to have ...