Perhaps President Obama's tax-cut deal with the GOP was astute, after all. While he angered liberals, he also won back some independent support – an example of Clintonian 'triangulation.'
Following two days of talks in Geneva that failed to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the US is signaling its readiness to seek even harsher sanctions.
The city will use federal funds to buy and rehab vacant homes in targeted neighborhoods, says Mayor Dave Bing. It's part of a strategy to cope with a shrinking Detroit and to battle blight.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - The trustee recovering money for investors who lost billions of dollars in jailed financier Bernard Madoff's fraud on Friday filed civil racketeering charges against an Austrian banker and 55 other defendants, demanding they give up nearly $20 billion and accusing the banker of being Madoff's "criminal soul mate."
AP - In the spirit of the holiday season, President Barack Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans is becoming a Christmas tree tinseled with gifts for lobbyists and lawmakers. But that hardly stopped the squabbling on Friday, with Bill Clinton even back at the White House pleading the president's case.
AP - The chairman of the Senate subcommittee overseeing aviation said Friday he would recommend holding congressional hearings on aircraft registration after The Associated Press reported the Federal Aviation Administration was missing data on one-third of U.S. planes.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose country was ridiculed in Wikileaks documents as a "mafia state," suggests the U.S. and the West are being hypocritical for their prosecution of Wikileaks chief Julian Assange.
s today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony gets underway, China is making no attempts to hide its feelings on the matter. "Today in Norway's Oslo, there will be a farce staged: 'The Trial of China'," was the headline of the Global Times. "Most nations' oppose peace prize to Liu," read the China Daily.
Nicholas Brooks, the son of "You Light Up My Life" songwriter Joseph Brooks, has been charged in the death of 33-year-old swimsuit designer Sylvia Cachay, whose bruised body was found in a hotel bathtub.
The U.S. embassy in Caracas appears to have put in long hours examining President Hugo Chavez' efforts to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. But out of all the dense analysis springs one cable -- about the role of the humble tortilla in building a brave new world.
Relations between the Vatican and Ireland deteriorated sharply as the Holy See appeared to ignore a commission looking into complaints of physical and sexual abuse of children by Irish priests, according to U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
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