Washington: With the clock ticking toward a New Year’s time bomb of huge tax increases and spending cuts, US lawmakers worked feverishly Saturday to keep...
Washington: US President Barack Obama rushed back to Washington on Thursday in a last ditch bid to halt America’s slide over the “fiscal cliff,” only...
Washington: With President Barack Obama heading back to Washington, Republicans heaped pressure on Democrats on Wednesday to lay out an 11th-hour deal preventing taxes from...
Washington: Starbucks stirred the political pot Wednesday by urging its baristas to write “come together” on its cups as a way to pressure US lawmakers...
Washington: Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame as they left for the Christmas holiday amid fading hope of an agreement to avert a year-end fiscal...
Washington: Democrat and Republican lawmakers mulled their next move Saturday after leaving Washington for the Christmas holidays without an agreement on averting a year-end fiscal...
Washington: Republican leaders, chastened by a failure to get conservatives to back a tax hike on millionaires, said Friday they were not walking away from...
Washington: The White House accused Republicans Thursday of walking away from a deal and mounting futile diversionary votes as hopes plunged of a deal to...
Washington: US President Barack Obama said Wednesday he and Republicans had narrowed differences over how to avoid the “fiscal cliff” to “a few hundred billion...