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  • Obama Touting Energy-Efficiency Program

    Hoping to jump-start his plans for job growth, President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to pass incentives for homeowners who retrofit their homes to make them more energy-efficient

  • Single-Payer Health Care Plan Dies in Senate

    The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday in the Senate

  • Obama vs. the Banks: The Pressure Intensifies

    President Obama is planning to give financial executives a tongue lashing on Monday over big bonuses and tight-fisted lending. But can political rhetoric get bankers to make loans they don't want to make?

  • Democrats Spend Now to Save (Their Seats) Later

    The voters have spoken: they would like 8 million jobs created now, please

  • 22 Million Lost Bush Admin. E-Mails Found

    Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush

  • The Pros and Cons of Expanding Medicare

    Is the brand more important than the actual product? When it comes to the contentious issue of health reform, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is certainly hoping so

  • Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

    The more-than-1,000-page package, one of the last essential chores of Congress this year, passed 57-35 and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.

  • Jenny Sanford

    Jenny Sanford, wife of philandering South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, has filed for divorce as her national profile continues to climb

  • House Passes Major Wall Street Makeover

    The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday

  • Obama Defends War As He Accepts Prize

    President Barack Obama says the nonviolence practiced by such leaders as Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should be a guiding force

  • House Votes to Extend $31B in Tax Breaks

    The House voted Wednesday to extend $31 billion in popular tax breaks, including an income tax deduction for sales and property taxes, to be financed with a tax increase on investment fund managers and a crackdown on international tax cheats

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