Who's Next? A Tour of Potential Dominoes in Arab World

Feb 2nd 2011 – 8:49 AM |AOL News

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President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is on his way out, a victim of the same popular street movements that forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunisia. And one of the biggest questions in the Middle East...

Why Egypt Matters: It's the Linchpin for Mideast Peace and Security

Jan 31st 2011 – 5:43 PM |AOL News

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There was an odd man out last September at the White House, when President Barack Obama gathered emotional Middle East leaders for an ambitious if ill-fated push for a new peace process. Israeli...

Japan's Credit Rating Takes a Hit; Is the US Next?

Jan 27th 2011 – 5:20 PM |AOL News

Sometimes political deadlock can affect your credit score. That's a lesson Japan learned today when the ratings agency Standard & Poor's lowered by a notch the credit rating of the world's...

Vexed by Joblessness, Fed Sticks to Cheap-Money Plans

Jan 26th 2011 – 4:14 PM |AOL News

For all the knotty financial, psychological and political factors complicating the Federal Reserve's effort to get the economy back on track, one persistent and simple truth in its monetary policy...

Obama's Bipartisan Economic Vision Signals Bitter Clashes Ahead

Jan 25th 2011 – 10:40 PM |AOL News

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Analysis Rarely has a president asked for so much when he can get so little. President Barack Obama went before assembled House and Senate members tonight knowing he must address two...

Obama Taps New Point Man for Terror Finances, Iran Sanctions

Jan 24th 2011 – 5:24 PM |AOL News

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Stuart Levey, architect of the post-9/11 strategy of using the long reach of the U.S. financial system to fight terrorists and pressure Iran to give up its atomic ambitions, is leaving the government...

Union Membership Declines Amid Hard Economic Times

Jan 21st 2011 – 2:05 PM |AOL News

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The faltering pace of growth in the U.S. economy and sickly state of the jobs market contributed to a steady drop in union membership around the country, as the role of organized labor continued to...

Spike in Opium Prices Threatens Progress in Afghan Drug War

Jan 20th 2011 – 2:58 PM |AOL News

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A recent surge in opium prices could encourage Afghan farmers to expand cultivation of the narcotic crop and reverse advances in the fight against drug production in the war-torn country, the United...

US Goes After Pakistani Who Recruits Child Suicide Bombers

Jan 20th 2011 – 2:09 PM |AOL News

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Reports of Qari Hussain's death were apparently premature. The senior lieutenant of the Pakistani Taliban reportedly had been killed in October but was formally designated as a foreign terrorist...

For China and US, a Summit That's All About R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Jan 19th 2011 – 8:55 PM |AOL News

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For all the laundry list of profound and resonating issues confronting the United States and China, from North Korea and human rights to currency rates and trade deals that affect hundreds of...

Obama Takes Aim at Regulation as GOP Targets Health Care Law

Jan 18th 2011 – 3:05 PM |AOL News

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To regulate or not to regulate? That is the question President Barack Obama is ordering every federal agency and office to ask in a government-wide review aimed at eliminating rules on the books...

What's at Stake in US-China Summit? Pretty Much Everything

Jan 17th 2011 – 7:46 PM |AOL News

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Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have a lot to talk about. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States for a state visit at a time when Washington and Beijing are partners, adversaries or...

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