OBAMA SIGNS BIPARTISAN BUDGET DEAL, DEFENSE BILL
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama speaks to members of the military and their families in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, in Kaneohe Bay,…
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RUSSIAN OLIGARCH MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY A FREE MAN
FILE In this Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 file photo Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, looks from behind glass at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday…
BUDGET DEAL MAY SIGNAL ERA OF TINY ACHIEVEMENTS
By CHARLES BABINGTON FILE – In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, is joined by Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, left, during a news…
PUTIN ANNOUNCES CRACKDOWN ON OFFSHORE COMPANIES
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) MOSCOW (AP) — Russian…
HO– USE REPUBLICANS SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR BUDGET DEAL
By ANDREW TAYLOR House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters’ questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec.…
BIPARTISAN BUDGET DEAL SETS OFF SOME GRUMBLING
By ANDREW TAYLOR House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a…
IRS NOMINEE TO FACE QUESTIONS ON HEALTH LAW
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER FILE – In this March 27, 2009, file photo, John Koskinen is seen outside the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama has nominated Koskinen as Internal…
UK GOVERNMENT PREDICTING SURPLUS BY DECADE’S END
By DANICA KIRKA In this still taken from video, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivers his autumn statement to MPs in the House of Commons, central London, Thursday…