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Boehner urges Senate to negotiate extension of payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits
Some conservatives seem to be losing patience with House Republicans who are refusing to take up the bipartisan compromise reached by the Senate. But House Speaker John Boehner is asking for Senate negotiators to work with him to try and find a solution.
House rejects Senate bill extending unemployment benefits, payroll tax cut
Shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected the Senate bill to grant an extension unemployment benefits and a payroll tax cut by two months. It's increasingly unclear whether any deal can get done....
Republicans, Democrats at odds over payroll tax cut, unemployment extensions
Senate Democrats and House Republicans are disagreeing again over how to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. House Speaker John Boehner backed away from the compromise on Sunday, leading Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer to compare negotiating with him to nailing Jell-o to the wall....
U.S. government officially links Bradley Manning to Wikileaks documents
In a pre-trial hearing in Maryland, U.S. government experts for the first time publicly linked Pfc. Bradley Manning and Wikileaks, saying Manning was the source of the classified documents that have propelled Wikileaks to infamy....
VIDEO: Vaclav Havel, former Czech President, dies over the weekend
The 75-year-old former playwright became the first president of Czechoslovakia after communist rule and oversaw the peaceful separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
Senate passes extension of payroll tax, unemployment benefits
After weeks of wrangling, the U.S. Senate approved a bill that extends the payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits by 60 days. It also requires the Keystone XL pipeline either move forward or be killed....
In post-Wikileaks world, classified documents being held more tightly than ever
When Wikileaks unveiled its cache of U.S. diplomatic cables, experts predicted the dawn of a new age in sharing classified documents. The exact opposite has happened....
Increasingly, American citizens being swept up in U.S. immigration raids
Stepped up efforts by the Obama administration to deport illegal immigrants have caused the net to capture U.S. citizens as well. Many of them are spending days in local jails while trying to get anyone to believe they're actually Americans....
NTSB calls for total ban on drivers using cell phones
A new proposal of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a law mandating all drivers put the phones down and focus on the road....
Iran says it won't be returning crashed U.S. drone; demands apology
The United States lost one of its RQ-170 Sentinel drones over Iran recently, and now it wants it back. The Iranians, however, say no way and that they intend to use the information that glean from the drone to file a lawsuit against the U.S....
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