AP - President Barack Obama’s intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.[Read more...]
AP - WASHINGTON AP) — Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.[Read more...]
Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield face charges Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their Parliamentary expenses.Jim Devine, Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, along with Lord Hanningfield, will [...]
AP - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.[Read more...]
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AP - Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that’s nowhere in sight.[Read more...]
Lord Paul was appointed to the Privy Council last year Labour peer and donor Lord Paul will end his controversial "non-dom" status from the next tax year, he has said.The billionaire steel magnate said he would pay UK tax on his overseas earnings [...]
AP - President Barack Obama’s health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.[Read more...]
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. David Cameron rejects claims that he has been too weak in his dealing with Lord Ashcroft [...]
AP - President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress.[Read more...]
Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
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Pakistan tests missiles in Arabian Sea
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Aftershocks Jolt Chile Inauguration
UN critical of Israel over Gaza blockade
BNP teachers will not be banned
Early Iraq results: PM battling secular challenger
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More quakes hit Chile as new president takes over
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Strong Aftershocks Rattle Chile
Pinera sworn in as new quake hits
Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill
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Law bars Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
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Contractors ‘divert Somalia aid’
Apology for women raped by father
Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early
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Iran attacks US over AfghanistanObama pushing on health care end game
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Inmate reoffending ‘costs £10bn’
Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan
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US attacks East Jerusalem plans