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  • Afghan police: Taliban overruns remote district

    By Amir Shah - Associated Press

    About 300 Taliban fighters on Tuesday overran the tiny capital of a remote mountainous district in northeast Afghanistan, forcing police to retreat from their small outpost in the area, an official said. Published March 29, 2011 Comments

  • A taxing proposal in Washington, D.C.

    By Deborah Simmons

    What do you get when you mix a read-my-lips, no-tax-increase pledge with election-year politics? Tax proposals, of course. Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council are struggling to close a $550 million budget gap. Published May 7, 2010 Comments

  • Everything 'on table' as debt panel meets

    By Kara Rowland

    President Obama kicked off the first meeting of a bipartisan fiscal commission by chastising critics of his refusal to rule out a tax increase as a possible solution to the nation's debt crisis for playing a "Washington game." Published April 28, 2010 Comments

  • Raising taxes on rich unlikely to cut deficit

    By Patrice Hill

    Taxing wealthier people is back in style with Democrats in the White House and Congress, but the government's fiscal house is in such disarray that even that path will prove to be no cure-all for the nation's $1 trillion budget deficits. Published April 15, 2010 Comments

  • Debt panel's bind: Cut funds or hike taxes

    By Stephen Dinan

    Postponements and taxes and cuts — oh my! Published April 14, 2010 Comments

  • Obama advertises tax breaks ahead of Tax Day

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    Just ahead of Tax Day, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to take advantage of tax credits for first-time homebuyers, college students and others. Published April 10, 2010 Comments

  • Threats of violence overblown, IRS says

    By Joseph Weber

    The country's chief tax collector pushed back Monday against assertions that working for the Internal Revenue Service has become more dangerous as a result of growing anti-government sentiment and the recent passage of President Obama's health care plan. Published April 6, 2010 Comments

  • Senate takes up unemployment insurance

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    Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year. Published March 9, 2010 Comments

  • Obama defends stimulus, jabs GOP

    By Kara Rowland

    Saying it wasn't a "politically easy decision," President Obama on Wednesday commemorated the one-year anniversary of the $862 billion stimulus package and aimed a few verbal shots at Republican lawmakers who opposed the bill but sought stimulus-funded projects for their districts. Published February 17, 2010 Comments

  • U.S. debt threatens to be overwhelming

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    It's bad enough that Greece's debt problems have rattled global financial markets. In the world's largest economic and military power, there's a far more serious debt dilemma. Published February 14, 2010 Comments

  • Baucus, Grassley unveil joint jobs proposal

    By Jennifer Haberkorn

    Two senators released a draft of a bipartisan jobs proposal on Thursday that would lift some payroll taxes for newly hired workers, provide funding for highway and infrastructure projects, and extend unemployment benefits. Published February 11, 2010 Comments

  • White House report bleak on jobs front

    By Kara Rowland

    The White House said Thursday that unemployment will remain high for the near future and could climb back above the current 9.7 percent rate even as employers start hiring again. Published February 11, 2010 Comments

  • Deficit imperils nation's top credit rating

    By Patrice Hill

    The United States is drawing closer to the kind of debt crisis plaguing some European countries, where a financial emergency forces political leaders to make draconian spending cuts and tax increases to maintain the confidence of international investors. Published February 4, 2010 Comments

  • Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million

    By Stephen Dinan

    The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history. Published February 2, 2010 Comments

  • Obama team pitches budget on Hill

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    Top administration officials tried to steer President Obama's new $3.8 trillion budget through a U.S. congressional minefield on Tuesday as the day-old plan drew fire from Republicans and Democrats alike. Published February 2, 2010 Comments

  • White House unveils $3.8 trillion budget

    By Kara Rowland

    The White House says the government will run huge deficits for the foreseeable future, including a record $1.55 trillion deficit in 2010, although the president will try to reduce that figure to a $1.2 trillion deficit. Published February 1, 2010 Comments

  • Dems vow to revive health-care bill

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    Giving up on the health-care overhaul is not an option, the top House Democrat said Wednesday as lawmakers looked to President Obama for guidance in his State of the Union address on how to revive the stalled legislation. Published January 27, 2010 Comments

  • Unions agree to tax on high-cost health plans

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    The White House has reached a tentative agreement with union leaders to tax high-cost medical plans, one of the final obstacles in the way of President Obama's health care remake, officials said Thursday. Published January 14, 2010 Comments

  • Obama, Hill Democrats meet on health

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    With congressional negotiators starting to make decisions on a final health overhaul bill, top Democrats are hoping a White House session with President Obama will narrow differences between the House and Senate. Published January 13, 2010 Comments

  • Beverly Hills schools to boot outsiders

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    Threats on Facebook, name-calling, security guard escorts -- tempers are running high around schools these days in this normally sedate enclave of ostentatious wealth. Published December 30, 2009 Comments

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