Obama Seeks Small Biz Aid as Recovery Inches Along

Oct 29th 2010 – 3:19 PM |AOL News

Susan Walsh, AP

(Oct. 29) -- American economic growth picked up over the summer but not enough to substantially improve the jobs market, and President Barack Obama used the news to push a program aimed at getting...

US Works on a Tougher Deal for a Weakened Iran

Oct 28th 2010 – 5:47 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 28) -- The United States and its allies are trying to bring Iran back to the nuclear negotiating table with a new offer that aims to test whether Tehran's resolve has softened. But the deal's...

Missile Mishap Revives Alarm Over Nuclear Arsenal

Oct 27th 2010 – 4:29 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 27) -- Computer glitches, hardware failures and unexplained communication outages happen all the time. But when the affected systems control nuclear-armed missiles, it gets a little...

Index Shows Perception of US Corruption Growing

Oct 26th 2010 – 5:29 PM |AOL News

Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press / MCT

(Oct. 26) -- Is corruption getting worse in the United States? That may seem the takeaway from this year's Corruption Perceptions Index from Berlin-based Transparency International, which saw the...

Feds Escalate Investigations of Foreclosure Practices

Oct 25th 2010 – 5:14 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 25) -- The multiple federal agencies investigating questionable foreclosure practices at the nation's largest mortgage servicers have banded together and plan to announce their preliminary...

With Recovery Slow, Unemployment Likely to Drag On

Oct 23rd 2010 – 12:31 PM |AOL News

(Oct. 23) -- The wave of mass layoffs that crested during the recession is gradually receding, and unemployment in many parts of the country is falling, if slowly. But the tepid pace of recovery in...

US Arms Sale to Saudis Sends 'Message' to Iran

Oct 21st 2010 – 1:58 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 21) -- The Obama administration is authorizing the sale of more than $60 billion in fighter jets, attack helicopters and other materiel to Saudi Arabia, one of the largest arms deals ever and a...

Hopeful Economic Signs Complicate Fed's Task

Oct 20th 2010 – 5:38 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 20) -- There's an uptick in business travel and tourism, consumers are more willing to buy cars, and retail forecasts for the holidays are upbeat. Those new signs of growth in the laggard U.S....

How China Is Moving to Slow Economic Growth

Oct 19th 2010 – 8:58 PM |AOL News

(Oct. 19) -- At a time when their American counterparts are scrambling to salvage a fading economic recovery, Chinese officials today raised interest rates in a bid to rein in a runaway real estate...

Mideast Peace Talks at an 'Impasse,' UN Official Says

Oct 18th 2010 – 7:28 PM |AOL News

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(Oct. 18) -- A senior U.N. official today declared Middle East peace talks to be "at an impasse" despite repeated American attempts to break a deadlock over Israeli settlement construction in the...

Obama to Tackle Urban Myths on Discovery Channel

Oct 18th 2010 – 6:45 AM |AOL News

(Oct. 18) -- President Barack Obama, the target of widely circulated falsehoods about his religion, birth and experience, is going on a Discovery Channel program aimed at dispelling urban...

Fed Rescue Effort for Economy Would Carry Risks

Oct 15th 2010 – 4:28 PM |AOL News

Steven Senne, AP

(Oct. 15) -- The straggling jobs market, foreclosure epidemic and rash of vulnerabilities across the American economy seem to call for a rescue effort from the Federal Reserve, but any such rescue...

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