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PublishedDecember 21, 2011
Obama to Boehner: Two-month tax cut only option
Taxes will go up Jan. 1 unless the two sides can reach an agreement. The Senate produced a bipartisan deal to avoid the tax increase, but House Republicans rejected it.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader who President George W. Bush described as part of the "Axis of Evil," has died.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2011
Last US troops leave Iraq; war ends
The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2011
Obama wants tax cut extended for entire year
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, rebuffed by Congress on a yearlong extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut, said Saturday that it would be “inexcusable'” for lawmakers not to lengthen the short-term deal when they return from their holiday break. The bill, passed by the Senate shortly before the president spoke briefly at the […]
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PublishedDecember 17, 2011
Obama welcomes home troops from Iraq
The withdrawal ends a war in which nearly 4,500 Americans were killed, about 32,000 were wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2011
Optimism growing on deal to avoid federal shutdown
Senate leaders of both parties expressed optimism Thursday that agreement was near on extending this year's payroll tax cut, renewing unemployment benefits and averting a federal shutdown.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2011
Cain vows to add staff, campaign more aggressively
CONCORD, N.H. — Seizing modest momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, businessman Herman Cain promised to invest in additional staff and campaign more aggressively in New Hampshire and Iowa. “We have run this very lean by design. We are now going to ramp up,” he told reporters near the New Hampshire […]
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