President Barack Obama on Tuesday gained significant Republican support for his top foreign-policy priority, a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia that in recent days had appeared all but dead for the year in the Senate.
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A federal judge will not let the former business partner of the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff change his guilty plea in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says consequences for foreign policy are “fairly modest.”
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Italian students took to the streets of several cities on Tuesday to protest government plans to cut spending on education.
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The co-chairmen of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission are sticking with politically explosive proposals to raise the Social Security retirement age and benefit increases in a revised plan to wrestle the deficit under control.
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State Department communications leaked by WikiLeaks show that eight months after President Obama signed the executive order to close the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay — one of his first acts as president — diplomats concluded that was a mission impossible.
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President Obama’s debt-reduction panel includes 12 members of Congress said to be split along party lines.
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Two races remain undecided from the Nov. 2 election.
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In speech capping a 30-year Senate career, the Connecticut Democrat urges his colleagues to respect Senate rules, including the filibuster.
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An ACORN affiliate in New Orleans was improperly awarded a fire safety and prevention grant worth nearly a half-million dollars, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
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Republicans reluctant to quickly ratify a nuclear weapons deal with Russia said Tuesday the Obama administration had addressed some of their concerns, raising the prospect for Senate approval of the landmark treaty.
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Ms. Akhmadulina’s startling images and intensely personal style, couched in classical verse forms, established her as one of the leading literary talents in the post-Stalin Soviet Union.
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The son of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., reported more than $29,000 worth of items stolen from a vehicle he was driving that is registered to the 14th Congressional District his father represents.
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The chairmen of the fiscal reform commission appointed by President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the members of the panel will vote on a final deficit-cutting plan by the end of this week.
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After 30 years of service in the United States Senate, Democrat Chris Dodd used a farewell speech to the chamber Tuesday to issue a plea for civility in government and to warn against major reforms to the Senate’s filibuster rules.
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President Obama, at a face-to-face meeting Tuesday with bipartisan congressional leaders, will have his first chance since his party’s Election Day “shellacking” to reset relations with congressional Republicans and potentially crack the impasse over the Bush tax cuts
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Ms. Akhmadulina’s startling images and intensely personal style, couched in classical verse forms, established her as one of the leading literary talents in the post-Stalin Soviet Union.
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Mario Monticelli, the Italian director, was known as one of the great “comedia all’Italiana” filmmakers for movies including “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “La Grande Guerra.”
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The House of Representatives approved a decades-old settlement worth $4.6 billion Tuesday that resolves two class-action suits filed against the federal government by black farmers and Native Americans.
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The Afghan border police officer who killed six American troops in eastern Afghanistan Monday is just latest example of how difficult, and perhaps improbable, it is for NATO forces to train and equip hundreds of thousands of police officers and soldiers who can enforce law and order on their own by the 2014 target.
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President Obama and Republican Congressional leaders exchanged pledges of cooperation but reached no agreements in a meeting Tuesday.
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The cables on North Korea are short on facts, even when conveying the thoughts of diplomats from China, the North’s ally.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday Virginia state employees will not get a pay raise any time soon but on Wednesday, more than 117,000 eligible state government workers will get a one-time bonus.
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All 197 airlines that fly to the United States are now collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government can check them against terror watch lists before they fly, the Obama administration announced Tuesday.
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An exhaustive nine-month study found that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” would present a low risk to military effectiveness.
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