WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there was no way he could avoid urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage. Obama says the nation is going through the same type of ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten days before a new deadline for broad, automatic government spending cuts, the sense of urgency that surrounded other recent fiscal crises is absent. Government agencies are preparing to ... Read more
FRANKFURT (AP) — German's central bank says the country's economy is on track to avoid a recession as it shows signs of growth in the first three months of the year. Europe's largest economy shrank 0.6 percent ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to buy time and avoid economic pain, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to pass targeted short-term spending cuts and higher taxes as a way to put off sweeping, automatic ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are ... Read more