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A protester on Wall Street, September 19, 2011. (Photo: Dan Nguyen) Today, the Association of Washington Business, the powerful chamber of Washington State businesses, is in the …

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Washington - The Federal Reserve announced a new plan Wednesday to stimulate growth by purchasing $400 billion in long-term Treasury securities with proceeds from the sale of short-term government …

The State of Georgia is preparing to execute Troy Anthony Davis in one of the most high-profile executions in the United States in years. Davis is scheduled to be …

London - Two Americans arrested while hiking along the Iran-Iraq frontier two years ago and sentenced to eight years for espionage were released Wednesday on $1 million bail, Iran’s …

United Nations - President Obama declared his opposition to the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood through the Security Council on Wednesday, throwing the weight of the United States directly …

In Today's on the News segment: Troy Davis is now just hours away from death by lethal injection, Republicans are holding victims of natural disasters for ransom, US …

United Nations - Next month, the world's population will reach seven billion people, a landmark that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is hailing in its drive to raise …

Dear Lord, what is about generals that seem to make them so particularly immune to history’s lessons? Gen. Navarre had a sure-fire plan to draw the Vietnamese …

The question that everyone should be asking is: Why is the House GOP only proposing a short-term continuing resolution? This should be the moment when either individual …