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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an alleged Iranian missile manual as Defense Minister Ehud Barak looks on at a press conference near a ship seized in the Mediterranean …

Even if job growth were to improve through the rest of 2011, it would not be enough to reduce the unemployment rate. The Labor Department reported that …

The Progressive Caucus, in a letter being sent to President Obama today, says any budget deal he agrees to that contains cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid won't …

A six-year transportation funding bill that Republicans in the House of Representatives outlined Thursday would sharply cut highway and transit funding and seek to curb Amtrak and high-speed rail …

When I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to high-stakes testing, all I could do is shake my head in …

Suddenly Republican leaders in Congress, after months of staring down the Democrats over a potentially disastrous debt default, began blinking so fast that they might be signaling in Morse …

Having spent many conceited weeks amid the Strauss-Kahn case, listening to locals assert that America's justice is superior to France's, we're now pitchforked into the next debate. Could U.S. …

Washington - Do progressives care about reducing the national debt? Of course they do, no matter what the White House might believe. …

Senate negotiators on Thursday announced a final deal that would end a 45-cent-per-gallon tax credit for ethanol. Under the Senate compromise, the ethanol tax credit would go …

President Barack Obama looked forward Thursday to a weekend of “hard bargaining” with Republicans over the federal budget deficit — but faced a rebellion from his own Democrats and …