Topic: United States
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate Thursday definitively approved Prime Minister Mario Monti's 33-billion-euro austerity package aimed at restoring market confidence in the euro zone's third-biggest economy.The Senate voted 257 to 41 in a confidence vote called to speed the passage of the ...
Republican presidential frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney barnstormed high-stakes New Hampshire, with Gingrich vowing to roll back President Barack Obama's "radical socialism" and Romney warning against "a path to make us more like Europe."The two candidates spent a cold, sleet-filled day ...
Republican White House hopeful Ron Paul, courting Iowa voters who are key to his campaign, called Wednesday for a "minding our own business" US foreign policy and an end to "perpetual war.""No more wars unless you declare them, and fight them, and ...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - "I'm speaking as a historian."It's a common refrain in Newt Gingrich's speeches, a not-so-subtle reminder of the image he seeks to build as a Republican presidential candidate: that of a serious thinker whose opinions are rooted in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans were under growing pressure on Wednesday to agree to a 60-day extension of an expiring payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and end a stand-off with Democrats that threatens to undercut a fragile U.S. economic recovery.The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A payroll tax cut for 160 million American workers was in limbo on Wednesday with Democrats and Republicans in Congress accusing each other of bringing an extension to a dead stop.If Congress cannot produce a deal by a December ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama demanded on Tuesday that Republicans in the House of Representatives pass a short-term extension of a payroll tax cut, showing an unwillingness to back down in a fight that could result in higher taxes for 160 ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) - Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich's status as the front runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is fading after weeks of attacks by rivals and intense media scrutiny of his political record and personality.Gingrich acknowledged that ...
Determined to avoid ending their days in a retirement center, elderly Washingtonians living in the shadow of Capitol Hill are working together in a village-like community to stay in their homes."I wouldn't want to be in a nursing home. I love my ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a tax cut for 160 million U.S. workers set to expire in less than two weeks, Republicans and Democrats in Congress on Monday were mired in a last-ditch battle over extending it.In a surprise turnabout, Republicans in the ...
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