U.S. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan said Sunday he wasn't pushing for a government shutdown as a budget deadlock continued, and suggested Republicans would seek a short-term extension of the budget to allow negotiations to proceed.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker reiterated Sunday that he wouldn't compromise on a bill limiting public workers' collective-bargaining rights, despite days of protests.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Saturday that the package of spending cuts the House of Representatives passed would "undermine and damage our capacity to create jobs and expand the economy."
The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't pretty. The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.
Thousands of pro-union protesters gathered outside the Wisconsin Capitol Saturday for a fifth day of demonstrations against a budget bill that would strip public employees of most of their bargaining rights.
The striking musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra rejected the latest contract offer Saturday, and management responded by suspending the remainder of the performance season through June.
The House approved a bill that would make unprecedented federal budget cuts, delivering on Republican campaign promises and setting the stage for a battle with the White House that could bring the government to a halt.
Top Senate Democrats tried to scotch efforts by Majority Whip Richard Durbin to include Social Security in comprehensive deficit-reduction negotiations.
During an hourlong debate, three candidates for Chicago mayor took turns attacking a fourth, Rahm Emanuel, the favorite in the coming election, who didn't display any of his well-known combativeness.
Federal prosecutors have decided to close their criminal investigation into former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive Angelo Mozilo without filing charges, according to people familiar with the matter.
A day after touring an advanced Intel semiconductor plant, President Barack Obama said a deficit of highly educated American workers could hurt the country's ability to compete globally.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fired his most pointed rebuttal yet at foreign critics who say the U.S. central bank's easy money policies are breeding inflation and asset bubbles abroad.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's call to cancel a state drug-monitoring program has sparked an uproar in Appalachian states that say they are deluged with illegally bought pills from South Florida pain clinics.
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U.S. efforts to stabilize Bahrain, another key Arab ally threatened by popular uprising, is being threatened on several fronts—including apparent splits in Bahrain's royal family and a sense of disengagement by Saudi Arabia, the region's biggest power.
The Obama administration peeled back a rule defining when health-care workers can refuse to administer treatments they find morally objectionable, reversing a final act of George W. Bush's administration.
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House Republicans voted to bar the federal government from spending money on the health-care overhaul, the latest GOP effort to derail the Obama administration's top domestic initiative.
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The House's weeklong debate over spending cuts exposed just how much the 2010 election has blurred the lines of authority in Washington.
Some donors who deserted the RNC during Michael Steele's reign are writing checks again as the party, with new Chairman Reince Priebus, embarks on a campaign to unseat Obama.
Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Obama sat down for dinner with Apple's Steve Jobs, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other corporate chieftains.
Abigail Kawananakoa has been on a decades-long treasure hunt—a bid to recover silverware, lamps, rare furniture and other assorted objects from her family's former home. Make that "palace."
Too many men in their 20s live in a kind of extended adolescence—and women are sick of dealing with them.
Hotelier Andre Balazs, publicist Steven Huvane, designer Georgina Chapman and interior designer Michael Smith on the best restaurants, bars and shops in L.A.
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya, as the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule.
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A closer look at studies analyzing the glut of information people face every days suggests the avalanche of words and images isn't as massive as feared.
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In today's pictures, Russia's president and prime minister go skiing, a man works at a mustard farm in India, a woman prepares masks for Rio's Carnival and more.
They worked together as money managers at hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. They skated together and vacationed together. And, prosecutors say, they traded on inside information together.
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A bipartisan reduce-the-deficit commission made a splash last year with a plan. Now, Obama and GOP lawmakers say spending on entitlements must be restrained. Neither side, so far, is willing to go first.
Edgar Hetteen built the sport of snowmobiling from a grain-silo conveyor belt, an old Chevrolet bumper and other spare parts lying around his farm-equipment shop. He died Saturday at age 90.
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