The US Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terror after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the...
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17 Apr 2013
US federal authorities intercepted a letter that contained the deadly poison ricin and was bound for the Washington office of Senator Roger Wicker, officials said on Tuesday.
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5 Jan 2013
John Boehner, the top Republican in Washington, has been narrowly re-elected to his powerful job as Speaker as the new US Congress opened for business, despite a mini-revolt in his own party over...
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4 Jan 2013
The top Republican in Washington was narrowly re-elected to his powerful job as the new Congress opened for business, despite a mini-revolt in his own party over the “fiscal cliff” deal and a...
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4 Jan 2013
The just-in-time budget deal the US Congress passed on New Year's Day calls to mind Samuel Johnson's observation about dogs that walk on their hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are...
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4 Jan 2013
Some choice words have been used to describe the brinkmanship across a US Congress that led us to the edge of the American "fiscal cliff" - "shenanigans", "circus", "omnishambles". Certainly few...
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A chastened US House Republican leadership scrambled to tamp down seething bipartisan fury over a failure to approve emergency relief for victims of superstorm Sandy, saying a vote will now occur...
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US President Barack Obama has cut his Christmas vacation short to return to Washington to make a last-ditch push for a compromise on a tax and spending dispute with Congress that remains...
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Dozens of people were killed and wounded in an air strike on a bakery in Syria's central Hama province yesterday, activists said, with some reporting up to 200 dead.
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In the end it took an act of Congress, but US television advertisers are finally required to do something parents have been demanding of them for decades: turn down their excessively loud ads.
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Congress returns from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday today, as lawmakers and US President Barack Obama try to avert a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into...
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Trading action on Wall Street is likely to retain its tentative edge over the new year, as uncertainty over the United States' financial future and its economy casts a pall over the market.
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