Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, The New York Times reported.
The newspaper said the Pakistani military, which mounted a major offensive [...]
Anger, frustration and a hunger for revenge are running high among US Marines as casualties mount on the frontline of the battle against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
On a base near Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, Marines are grieving the deaths of a sergeant and corporal killed by the remote-controlled bombs that [...]
US Republicans hoping to harness voter anger and ride to victory in November mid-term elections have their eyes on a potent symbolic prize: President Barack Obama’s former US Senate seat.
His home state of Illinois will hold the year’s first primary on Tuesday, a contest shaped by forces — a sour economy, an anti-incumbent mood, [...]
President Barack Obama unveils a new spending plan Monday aimed at reining in a massive budget deficit while still supporting the economic recovery and job creation.
The budget proposal for fiscal 2011, which starts October 1, comes with the US government seeking to wind down a huge stimulus aimed at lifting the economy out of [...]
The parallels to 1994 — the last time health reform died — are unmistakable.
Democratic senators huddled for weeks in backroom meetings, groping for a workable alternative. Some of the attempts at reviving it were genuine, while others were only designed to suggest forward progress, observers recall. After four or five weeks, the effort [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.
Still, the administration’s new budget to be released Monday says deficits over the next decade will average 4.5 percent [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to $1.3 trillion, a congressional official said Sunday.
Still, the administration’s new budget to be released Monday says deficits over the next decade will average [...]
President Barack Obama’s new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.
In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – A congressional official says the Obama administration’s new budget pegs the national deficit in the current fiscal year at a record of $1.6 trillion and that the deficit number for the 2011 fiscal year is $1.3 trillion.
In addition, the official said Sunday, deficits over the next decade will average 4.5 percent [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on [...]
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