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The Senate voted Saturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1 payroll tax increase and benefit cutoff for the long-time unemployed, but forcing a reluctant President […]

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Amgen Inc., the world’s largest biotech drugmaker, says Chairman and CEO Kevin Sharer will retire in 2012 and will be replaced by President and Chief […]

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Greece will cut spending further but it won’t impose new taxes, its finance minister said Monday, adding that talks with international debt inspectors on a […]

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The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in October to its lowest point of the year as Americans bought fewer foreign cars and imported less oil. Exports […]

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The coming year-end spending spree after so much debate over budget deficits shows just how hard it is to stem the government’s flow of red […]

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has met with Thai flood victims at an evacuation center after announcing a $10 million aid package.
Hillary spent […]

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The U.S. trade deficit fell in September to the lowest point this year as foreign sales of American-made autos, airplanes and heavy machinery pushed exports […]

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With a Thanksgiving deadline fast approaching, the GOP members of a deficit-reduction supercommittee are pressing a plan to cut the deficit by about $1.5 trillion […]

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