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Official: Obama proposes cuts to Social Security
Apr 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM
President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with...

Maryland lawmakers pass strict gun control bill
Apr 4, 2013 at 5:45 PM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's already-strong gun laws will become among the strictest in the nation with a measure passed by the General Assembly Thursday, sending the bill to the Democratic governor who proposed the legislation in the aftermath...

Obama to return 5 percent of salary to Treasury
Apr 3, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts.

Obama image machine whirs as press access narrows
Apr 2, 2013 at 7:21 AM
Capitalizing on the possibilities of the digital age, the Obama White House is generating its own content like no president before, and refining its media strategies in the second term in hopes of telling a more compelling story than in the first.

EPA taking aim at auto emissions, sulfur in gas
Mar 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM
Reducing sulfur in gasoline and tightening emissions standards on cars beginning in 2017, as the Obama administration is proposing, would come with costs as well as rewards.

Consumer confidence falls in March
Mar 26, 2013 at 8:28 AM
Americans are less confident in the economy than they were last month as massive government spending cuts have stoked economic uncertainty.

5 Oregon airport towers could be cut from FAA budget
Mar 24, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Five small airports in Oregon are on the Federal Aviation Administration list for potential control tower closings under the automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1.

Senate Democratic budget extends standoff with GOP
Mar 23, 2013 at 8:58 AM
An exhausted Senate gave pre-dawn approval Saturday to a Democratic $3.7 trillion budget for next year that embraces nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs targeted for cuts by House Republicans.

Jordan king says Assad's days are numbered
Mar 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM
Jordan's king warned Wednesday that a jihadi state could emerge on his northern border in Syria with Islamic extremists trying to establish a foothold in the neighboring country.

Costs of U.S. wars linger for over 100 years
Mar 19, 2013 at 7:42 AM
If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat.

Rise of Latino population blurs U.S. racial lines
Mar 18, 2013 at 8:09 AM
A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.

Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines
Mar 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Welcome to the new off-white America.

GOP budget takes aim again at Obamacare, Medicaid
Mar 12, 2013 at 8:05 AM
House Republicans are sticking to their guns on the federal budget, promising to try to repeal so-called Obamacare, cut domestic programs from Medicaid to college grants and require future Medicare patients to bear more of the program's cost.

U.S. citing security to censor more public records
Mar 11, 2013 at 7:33 AM
The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama took office,...

Lawmakers: Obama wooing might break budget logjam
Mar 10, 2013 at 9:23 AM
Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Barack Obama's courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle that could cost scores of Americans their jobs.