Is Iran Using Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan to Deflect the West?
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Analysis Yet another chapter in the Great Game may be afoot across the Middle East, as Iran seeks to sidetrack the United States and allied powers from their mission to block Tehran from gaining...
Mess in Illinois Only the Beginning of States' Budget Woes
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When Illinois legislators voted this week to raise state income taxes by 66 percent, they weren't sending a signal of tax-and-spend. It was tax-and-survive. The millions of job losses, real-estate...
North Korea Becoming a Bigger Threat to US, Gates Says
Vincent Yu, AP
North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities and development of intercontinental missiles are apparently advancing faster than the United States has acknowledged in the past -- making the capricious...
French Offensive Against the Dollar Falls Flat
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a mission to save the international economy through his nation's presidency this year of the Group of 20 major economic powers. And one of his principal goals...
Joblessness Persists as Obama's Biggest Challenge
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The unrelenting and epidemic unemployment that defied official efforts to fight it in 2010 now looms as the biggest problem confronting the Obama administration in 2011. A deceptively significant...
Sperling Tapped to Be Obama's Economic Adviser -- and Negotiator
Susan Walsh, AP
President Barack Obama has apparently chosen to replace his departing chief economic adviser, a veteran financial policymaker from the Clinton administration, with ... a veteran financial policymaker...
Americans Expect an Economically Rosier 2011 for the Country
If 2010 was the year the economic recovery fizzled, 2011 may be when the economy finally picks up. That's the view of a majority of Americans, according to the latest poll on economic outlooks from...
US and Allies Explore New Talks With North Korea
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The Obama administration is pursuing a revival of six-party talks with North Korea, even as both governments on the Korean peninsula seem to be backing away from their recent military...
Obama: Problems of 2011 Will Require Bipartisanship
A bloody political year behind him, President Barack Obama kicked off 2011 today with a call for Republicans and Democrats in a newly divided Congress to work together to bolster an economy still on...
Stubborn Joblessness Among Vets Darkens US Economy
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Despite the acceleration of U.S. economic growth, the painful grip of unemployment still isn't loosening and remains especially tough for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Labor...
China Says Rare Earth Minerals Are Going to Get Rarer
China said it will drastically limit exports of a group of minerals used in a host of consumer technology products, part of what the Obama administration sees as a broader strategy to unfairly help...
South Korea, Out of Options, Revives Nuke Diplomacy With North
Jo Bo-hee, Yonhap / AP
South Korea says it's ready to give denuclearization talks with North Korea another try despite last month's artillery attack -- the biggest spike in tension between the two countries since the...
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