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OBAMA TO ASK FOR PARTIAL 3-YEAR SPENDING FREEZE IN 2011
WASHINGTON - Facing voter anger over mounting budget deficits, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to freeze spending for some domestic programs for three years beginning in 2011, administration officials said Monday. Separately, Obama unveiled...
OBAMA TARGETS BANKS FOR TOUGHER REGULATION
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama stepped up his campaign against Wall Street on Thursday with a far-reaching proposal for tougher regulation of the biggest U.S. banks. "We have to get this done," Obama said at the White House. "If these folks want a...
DEMOCRATS DISCUSS SMALLER HEALTH BILL
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding for the first time that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul bill than the massive one they've struggled for a year to assemble. Shorn by Massachusetts...
EDWARDS ADMITS HE FATHERED RIELLE HUNTER'S BABY
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has finally come forward to admit that he fathered a child with a videographer that he hired before his second White House bid. Edwards confirmed this in a statement released to The...
CRASHING BORES
WASHINGTON -- White House gate crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination yesterday, refusing to answer a House committee's questions about their uninvited appearance at a state dinner. The...

The U.S. Stars & Stripes fly half-staff over the White House in honor of the passing of Democratic Representative John Murtha in Washington, DC, February 8, 2010. Murtha, the chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday.

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