With hours left before the national debt bumps against its ceiling, emergency bipartisan legislation to allow the government to borrow more faces its final test in the Senate Tuesday.
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Debt battle set to draw to close, for now
Posted by sanctifyrich 297 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)Obama: Any debt solution must be bipartisan
Posted by sanctifyrich 301 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
President Barack Obama took to the podium Friday morning to once again urge compromise in the stalled debt negotiations, just hours after Republican House Speaker John Boehner was forced to postpone a vote on his proposal to raise the borrowing cap.
Congress still at odds over debt deal
Posted by sanctifyrich 304 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
The U.S. House and Senate worked anew Monday on competing plans to slice away huge amounts of U.S. spending as the Republican price for raising the American debt limit — a necessary measure to prevent an unprecedented Aug. 2 default.
Did James Murdoch mislead Parliament?
Posted by sanctifyrich 308 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
News International's James Murdoch "was mistaken" in his British Parliament account about his involvement in a $1.1 million phone-hacking coverup, two former executives say.
Without debt deal, stocks may face rough week
Posted by sanctifyrich 312 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
U.S. stocks will be hard pressed to turn the tide of recent selling next week as political jousting over raising the United States' debt ceiling intensifies.
Reeling Murdoch faces tough choices
Posted by sanctifyrich 316 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
Now Murdoch is likely to face tough choices as he figures out the next move for News Corp., with some analysts suggesting he could sell off the global giant's newspaper arm to focus on more promising video and entertainment businesses.
Obama faces new obstacles in high-stakes debt talks
Posted by sanctifyrich 320 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
President Barack Obama will try to salvage high-stakes debt talks on Sunday after Republicans pulled back from a joint effort to craft a broad $4 trillion deficit-reduction deal.
Juror: Casey Anthony verdict was the right one
Posted by sanctifyrich 324 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
An alternate juror in the Casey Anthony trial on Wednesday defended the not guilty verdict over the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Imperfect accusers common in sex assault cases
Posted by sanctifyrich 327 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
The rapidly dissolving case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces challenges fairly common in sexual assault prosecutions, namely a less-than-perfect accuser.
Explosions, gunfire rock Kabul hotel
Posted by sanctifyrich 331 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
At least three suicide bombers blow themselves up inside a Western-style hotel in Afghanistan's capital, police tell NBC News, and other attackers fire from the upper levels.
NY Senate passes gay-marriage bill
Posted by sanctifyrich 335 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
New York state senators in Friday night voted 33-29 to legalize gay marriage, a breakthrough victory for the gay-rights movement in the state where it got its start.
U.N.: Cancer, diabetes kill millions, cost trillions globally
Posted by sanctifyrich 339 days ago (http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)
Nearly two-thirds of deaths are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study.
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