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Obama blasts GOP on estate tax plans CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Barack Obama promoted his tax proposals Wednesday while criticizing congressional Republicans who are pushing to r...

Kerry reassures G-7 Iran deal can stand up to Congress

LUEBECK, Germany – Secretary of State John Kerry reassured world powers Wednesday that a nuclear agreement with Iran would hold up to congressional scrutiny as Germany raised the question of...

Fight for $15 protests expand for low-wage workers

NEW YORK – The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a variety of low-wage workers and become more of a social justice movement...

UN concerns grow after refugee ship capsizes

MILAN – The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea – one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade – raised alarms Wednesday amid an unpre...

Obama makes new push on middle-class tax proposals

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Barack Obama promoted his tax proposals Wednesday while criticizing congressional Republicans who are pushing to repeal the estate tax. The House is ex...

Experts defend officer’s out-of-box action

Some say he deserves medal for using cruiser to disarm shooter

U.S., Cuba to open talks on fugitives

HAVANA – The U.S. and Cuba will open talks about two of America’s most-wanted fugitives as part of a new dialogue about law-enforcement cooperation made possible by President Barack Obama’s ...

Capitol Police knew about pilot’s plans

Postal worker lands gyrocopter on Capitol’s West Lawn

Study: More people could survive tsunami if they walk faster

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher ground after roads are knocked out, a new ...

Congress OKs bipartisan bill changing doctors’ Medicare fees

WASHINGTON – Legislation permanently overhauling how Medicare pays physicians won approval Tuesday from an atypically united Congress as lawmakers banded together to erase an irritant that h...

Russia-Iran deal draws criticism at G7 meeting

LUEBECK, Germany – Germany’s foreign minister said Tuesday it’s too early to reward Iran for a preliminary agreement on its nuclear program, criticizing Russia’s decision to lift a ban on de...

House approves legislation to ease rules on home loans

WASHINGTON – The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted legislation to ease some mortgage lending requirements of the sweeping 2010 law reining in banks and Wall Street as the Republican ma...
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