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• Senate Ag leader urges House action on farm bill

  September 11, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Debbie Stabenow is opposing House proposals to extend the current farm policy act and urging House Republican leaders to take up legislation to …

• IRS pays whistleblower $104 million

  September 11, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — First, the government threw Bradley Birkenfeld in prison for helping a former client at UBS AG hide his wealth from the Internal Revenue Service. Now, as part …

• Boehner expresses no confidence on budget deal

  September 11, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he’s not confident Congress can reach a budget deal and avoid a downgrading of the U.S. debt rating. Moody’s Investors … 3

• US watchdog questions spending for Afghan army

  September 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for U.S. spending in Afghanistan says lax accountability in a $1.1 billion program supplying fuel to the Afghan National Army needs “immediate attention” before control …

• Obama called steaming mad over failed budget deal

  September 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is acknowledging he was angry with House Republicans last year when a supposed “grand bargain” budget agreement with House Speaker John Boehner collapsed. Obama …

• Congress returns for short pre-election session

  September 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returned to Washington on Monday for an abbreviated pre-election session in which it appears likely to do the bare minimum: making sure that the government doesn’t …

• US watchdog questions spending for Afghan army

  September 9, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for U.S. spending in Afghanistan says lax accountability in a $1.1 billion program supplying fuel to the Afghan National Army needs “immediate attention” before control …

• Congress returns for short pre-election session

  September 9, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for a truncated pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt …

• Wary US looks to calm rising tensions in Asia

  September 7, 2012 VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — Alarmed by a rise in nationalist sentiment around the Asia-Pacific, the Obama administration is looking for Russia to play a greater role in the region as …

• Obama, Romney plunge into 60-day race to election

  September 7, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sixty days to the election, President Barack Obama is charging onto the campaign trail pleading for patience from hard-pressed Americans toying with the notion of change, …

• Schumer: Senate should vote soon on Ryan budget

  September 6, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sen. Chuck Schumer says he wants the Senate to vote soon on the Ryan budget to put Republicans, including presidential running mates Mitt Romney and Paul …

• Olive Garden, LongHorn workers sue company

  September 6, 2012 MIAMI (AP) — Darden Restaurants violated federal labor laws by underpaying thousands of servers across the country at Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Red Lobster and other eateries, according to a …

• NY court weighs if lap dance is tax-exempt art

  September 6, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the …

• Romney says America worse off now than in 2009

  September 5, 2012 WEST LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pointing the country’s $16 trillion debt and the millions of people who rely on food stamps as proof that …

• NY court to decide if lap dance is tax-exempt art

  September 5, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the … 1

• Smooth path seen to renewal of disaster aid

  September 5, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite some sniping on the presidential campaign trail, negotiations on Capitol Hill are likely to ensure a smooth flow of disaster aid in the wake of Hurricane …

• NY court to decide if lap dance is tax-exempt art

  September 4, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court will consider legal arguments by a strip club on whether nude dancing is an art and deserves a state tax exemption as …

• Clinton’s China visit produces no breakthrough

  September 4, 2012 BEIJING (AP) — Talks between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese leaders Wednesday failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and how …

• National debt hits $16T; GOP critical

  September 4, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Tuesday that the national debt has topped $16 trillion, the result of chronic government deficits that have poured more than $50,000 worth of … 1

• Peru villagers allege neglect after toxic spill

  September 4, 2012 in Health LIMA, Peru (AP) — More than a month after toxic slurry from a major copper mine sickened scores of people in one of Peru’s highland communities, villagers complain that the … 1

• Clinton seeks Chinese accord on South China Sea

  September 4, 2012 BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down Wednesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao to press Beijing to agree to peacefully resolve territorial disputes with its …

• Charlotte mayor rising as Dems’ convention begins

  September 4, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Anthony Foxx had been mayor for barely a year when he got the news: Charlotte was chosen to host the Democratic National Convention. He had spent …

• Why does Social Security need 174,000 bullets?

  September 4, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — It didn’t take long for the Internet to start buzzing with conspiracy theories after the Social Security Administration posted a notice that it was purchasing 174,000 hollow-point …

• Romney, Ryan bound by substance, differ in style

  August 29, 2012 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — They’re the political world’s newest odd couple: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are bound by substance, but differ dramatically in style. The running mates share a …

• Ohio doctor helps perpetuate rape pregnancy ideas

  August 24, 2012 in Health COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The discredited notion that a woman’s body can resist conception in a sexual assault has persisted in anti-abortion circles for decades, largely because of the efforts …

• Kinder, GOP lawmakers challenge Mo. ballot summary

  July 11, 2012 in Health JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and other top Republican legislative leaders filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the secretary of state’s office of writing a health …

• Health care options for young, healthy and broke

  July 10, 2012 in Health WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysomethings … 2

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