WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress to "act boldly and act now'' on Thursday to fix an economy growing perilously weaker, and leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February for enacting tax cuts and government spending that could cost as much as $1 trillion. Some ...
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The political and financial ties between embattled Illinois Gov. Rod J. Blagojevich and Senate appointee Roland Burris run much deeper than previously reported – possibly involving deals worth millions of dollars and an $80,000 per year job given to the governor’s wife. Among the latest ...
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WASHINGTON— President-elect Barack Obama is considering dissolving a White House-based homeland security panel created in the wake of 9/11 and will restructure counterterrorism policy under intelligence veteran John Brennan. The White House Homeland Security Council will remain for a while at ...
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Fire and smoke is seen from Israeli miltary operations in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, ripping through a crowded nursing home and threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Bowl Championship Series officials believe they're prepared to fend off any legal challenges. With the Utah attorney general investigating the bowl system for a possible antitrust violation, Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner and BCS coordinator John Swofford said ...
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MUMBAI: Did Satyam Computers promoter-chairman Ramalinga Raju pick the lesser of two crimes when he decided to confess to India’s largest-ever corporate fraud of Rs 7,136 crore? That’s a question that had begun to niggle a few people on Wednesday itself, when the contents of his 5-page letter ...
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Congress overstepped its authority when it enacted a law allowing the federal government to hold sex offenders in custody indefinitely beyond the end of their prison terms, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The law allowing civil commitment of "sexually dangerous" federal inmates intrudes on ...
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