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FAA shutdown continues as Congress leaves town
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving …
Debt: What's next?
WASHINGTON - The budget battle is not over. Many of the most nettlesome questions have been left for a new bipartisan super committee of 12 lawmakers whose task will be to find at least $1.2 trillion more in defici…
Debt a done deal, but truce already fades
WASHINGTON - With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said would have dev…
Applause greets Giffords' return to House
WASHINGTON - Slowly, with a sense of purpose, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords entered the House chamber Monday night to cast her first vote since she was shot in the h…
Big deal, more debt
WASHINGTON - Crisis legislation to yank the nation past the threat of a historic financial default sped through the House Monday night, breaking weeks of deadl…
Getting closer to D.B. Cooper
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is investigating whether a dead man in the Pacific Northwest is D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a passenger jet in 1971 over Washington sta…
Health care to cover the pill
WASHINGTON - A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women's health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with n…
Obama, congress strike deal
WASHINGTON - Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced historic agreement Sunday night on emergency legislation t…
Democrats pressure airlines to give back windfall
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats ratcheted up the pressure on airlines Friday to give back the windfall they've reaped by raising fares during the tax holiday created by the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Admi…
Victims' names to be read aloud at 9/11 anniversary
NEW YORK - The ceremony at the World Trade Center site marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks will be a solemn but stately event that will inclu…
Late stab at debt-limit deal
WASHINGTON - In a last-minute stab at compromise, Republican congressional leaders and the White House made significant progress Saturday toward a deal to aver…
FBI, police go high-tech to fight crime
SALT LAKE CITY - Khalid Ouazzani owned a Kansas City, Mo., used auto parts store by day but was secretly supporting al-Qaida by night.
Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
NEW YORK - Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president's personal cameraman. Sculptures by…
House approves debt bill
WASHINGTON - In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented g…