Obama peddles modest American dream
WASHINGTON — This time around, President Barack Obama's message can sound decidedly down-to-earth. Four years after winning the White House, Obama is dealing with a different economic and political...
View ArticleObama fails to share credit for payroll-tax cut
Signing ceremonies for important bills often include the Republican and Democratic lawmakers instrumental in getting the legislation passed — but there are no such plans in the works for when President...
View ArticleGovernment seeks smaller role for Fannie, Freddie
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has submitted a plan to Congress that would shrink the mortgage giants' role in the housing market. The Federal Housing Finance...
View ArticleBachmann says she'll seek old seat in 6th District
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said Tuesday she will run for her old 6th Congressional District seat even though newly drawn congressional maps put her home in the...
View ArticleSantorum stirs new talk of Obama's faith
The White House on Tuesday attempted to brush aside comments about President Obama's theology from Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, as well as more pointed remarks by the Rev. Franklin...
View ArticleHURT: Federal war on hair dryers, fresh milk
ANALYSIS/OPINION: All praise be to Allah! The federal government apparently has eradicated the illegal immigration that cripples America. It has eliminated the staggering unemployment that has brought...
View ArticleHopefuls mix words, deeds on E-Verify
Rick Santorum has called for every business in the country to use E-Verify, the government's database for screening out illegal immigrant workers, but his own presidential campaign has not signed up to...
View ArticleSale of Philadelphia newspapers raises bias concerns
Philadelphia's two daily newspapers have long been accused of liberal bias, but critics say a group of potential buyers led by former Gov. Ed Rendell would turn the papers into mere mouthpieces of the...
View ArticleInside the Beltway
DEBATE EVOLUTION Welcome to another Republican presidential debate, the 20th for the remaining candidates, and the seventh hosted by CNN, which broadcasts the two-hour event from Mesa, Ariz., at 8 p.m....
View ArticleProsecution of federal bribery case collapses
In an embarrassing setback, the Justice Department gave up Tuesday on its high-profile prosecution of nearly two dozen businessmen charged in the first undercover sting the government used to enforce a...
View ArticleCongress puts the squeeze on federal employees
Federal workers have become the go-to targets as Congress, and the White House, search for ways to lower the deficit, pay for tax cuts and put off looming reductions to defense spending. Last week,...
View ArticleSolyndra bonuses reduced; fired workers irked
Attorneys for solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC say they've reduced by more than $100,000 the amount of bonus money they want to pay a handful of current employees still working for the bankrupt company....
View ArticleInside Politics
CAMPAIGN Typo has vice president headed to 'Road Island' PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The vice president is hitting the road — to what the White House wrote as "Road Island," mistakenly spelled R-O-A-D instead...
View ArticleSantorum ups Obama criticism
PHOENIX — Rick Santorum, surging in the Republican presidential sweepstakes, is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Obama, questioning not just the president's competence, but his motives...
View ArticlePoll: Santorum surges; Obama leads Republicans
WASHINGTON — A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Obama eight months before Americans...
View ArticleObama joins Jagger, B.B. King to belt out blues
WASHINGTON — The chief executive just couldn't say no: Mick Jagger held out a mic almost by way of command, and soon President Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them. The East Room of...
View ArticleGeithner: Obama seeks 28 percent corporate tax rate
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the current business tax system is bad for business and job creation and that a plan by President Obama to reduce corporate tax rates would make...
View ArticleObama calls for cut in corporate tax rate
President Obama's tax reform proposal unveiled Wednesday played to mixed reviews, as critics assailed the plan for failing to address individual tax reform and argued that it would increase the tax...
View ArticleHigh court appears torn over law that bans lying about medals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over a law that makes it a crime to lie about having been awarded top military honors. The justices engaged in spirited debate...
View ArticleObama marks groundbreaking of black history museum
President Obama celebrated the groundbreaking of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on Wednesday, saying it will remind all Americans of the ordeals and triumphs of blacks....
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