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For nearly six months after U.S.-led forces accidentally killed two dozen Pakistani troops at the Afghanistan border, officials at the highest reaches of the Obama administration have been locked in a heated debate over what might appear to be a small step — apologizing for the loss.
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A Government Accountability Office study commissioned by Sen. Tom Coburn found an overlapping and duplicative maze of 47 federal jobs programs run by nine agencies, some of which were rife with mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is willing to testify at a congressional hearing this spring on the bank’s $2 billion trading loss.
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In a taped interview, a man purported to be Rev. Jeremiah Wright claimed that an associate of President Obama, through an intermediary, offered him money to stop preaching during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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A report that the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has been granted a temporary U.S. visa has sparked sharp criticism from Cuban-American GOP Sen. Marco Rubio and other Capitol Hill lawmakers.
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He’s a sinner, but he’s no crook. That was the final message from John Edwards’ defense team Thursday as both sides made closing arguments in the month-long corruption trial that threw open the blinds on his once-secret affair with Rielle Hunter.
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President Barack Obama is declaring a “new chapter” in U.S. relations with Burma, the former pariah state also known as Myanmar.
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Several false starts and nearly $400 million in taxpayer funds later, a California space company is aiming in a matter of days to be the first private firm to send its own capsule to the International Space Station.
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The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
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The Pentagon says the U.S. will give Israel the extra $70 million that Jerusalem asked for this year for short-range missile defense.