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Obama raising taxes, cutting deficit
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama plans to roll out a blueprint of his 2010 federal budget proposal next week, and the early word on it is that the president will lay out a roadmap for cutting the budget deficit......Tags: State Budgets, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Budgets and Budgeting, George Bush
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Obama's hope: 'Because of what we did'
The Swampby Mark Silva "Because of what we did,'' President Barack Obama says today, things will get better. He says so, repeatedly. So this is as good a time as any to ask if the president's good speechwriting is getting in......Tags: Financial Markets, Barack Obama, Telecommunication Service, Fires, State Budgets
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U.S. diplomacy: Elbows in, but ready
The Swampby Mark Silva Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, says the newest evidence confirms that Iran "remains in pursuit of its nuclear program. :"There's no ambiguity about that, and our aim is to combine enhanced pressures, and indeed the......Tags: United Nations, Diplomacy, Basketball, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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Bank takeovers looming despite WH spin
The Swampby Frank James Wall Street and financial institutions positively hate the idea of banks being nationalized and who can blame them? Nationalization would wipe out shareholders, including top officials at the financial institutions themselves who presumably...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Bank of America Corp., Heads of State, Alan Greenspan, Republican Party
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Guantanamo humane, Pentagon finds
The Swampby Josh Meyer The Pentagon has concluded that the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay meets the standards for humane treatment of detainees established in the Geneva Conventions accords. In a report for President Obama on conditions at Guantanamo,...Tags: Heads of State, Wars and Interventions, Constitutional Issues, Civil Rights, Prisoners and Detainees
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Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan and the U.S.
The Swamp(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul. Photo by Zabiullah Tamanna / AP) by Mark Silva and updated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arriving in Afghanistan on the heels of the Obama administration's.....Tags: Heads of State, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Reconstruction
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Polish police arrest suspect in the killing of a Chechen dissident in Vienna
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have arrested a man suspected of killing a refugee from Chechnya who was gunned down in Austria last month after filing a criminal complaint against the president of the Russian region, officials said Sunday. A...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Civil Rights, Crimes, Murder, Human Rights
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Sudan's al-Bashir seeking Egypt support on pending international court warrant
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's president is seeking Egypt's help to "delay or halt" the International Criminal Court from issuing an arrest warrant for his role in suppressing the Darfur rebellion, Sudan's ambassador to Cairo said Sunday. Sudanese...Tags: Peace Negotiations, International Law, Rebellions, Heads of State, Diplomacy
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Democratic, Republican governors trade barbs over whether to accept stimulus money
WASHINGTON (AP) — To take federal stimulus money for your state or not to take it. That is the big question for Democratic and Republican governors in town for the National Governor's Association meeting this weekend. Democrats claim those...Tags: Sarah Palin, Florida, Republican Party, Unemployment, CNN
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Official: Obama's first budget part of plan to cut federal deficit in half by first term's end
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has committed hundreds of billions of dollars to help revive the economy and is working on a plan to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obama will touch on his efforts to restore...Tags: Heads of State, Small Businesses, Republican Party, Kentucky, Barack Obama
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Obama aims to cut federal budget deficit in half
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will offer a plan this week to cut the federal deficit by half by the end of his first term in office, largely by winding down the war in Iraq and raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year, an...Tags: Heads of State, Global Warming, Defense, Wars and Interventions, Tom Daschle
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Granholm to GOP refusers: `We'll take your money'
To take federal stimulus money for your state or not to take it. That is the big question for Democratic and Republican governors in town for the National Governor's Association meeting this weekend. Democrats claim those Republican governors who turn...Tags: Sarah Palin, Florida, Republican Party, Unemployment, CNN
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