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President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 per year, according to a White House official, seeking to spare the economy the impact of taxes going up on Jan. 1.

Posner said he has become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush turns 66 today and though he has remained out of the public's eye his work with HIV/AIDS in Africa continues.

Palestinian officials have called an international probe into the death of its leader Yasser Arafat, more than eight years after he died of several mysterious health complications, following a report that he could have been poisoned with a radioactive substance known as polonium.

Andy Griffith, the beloved actor and star of The Andy Griffith Show, died Tuesday. He was 86. Close friend Bill Friday, the former president of the University of North Carolina, told WITN News that Griffith died around 7 a.m. at home in Dare County, North Carolina.

The Republican benign-neglect approach to health care reform during the past decade was an unwitting contributor to the situation we find ourselves in today.

When CBS News broke the story that U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts had first decided to vote with his fellow Supreme Court conservatives on so-called Obamacare and then changed his mind, it led to huge questions, not only about him but also about his motivations.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is poised to retake power on Sunday after a decade out of power, led by the charismatic presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Would a change mean a much different relationship with Mexico's big neighbor to the north?

Both liberals and conservatives can use the high court?s decision to energize the rank-and-file.

Chief Justice John Roberts was the deciding factor in preserving Obamacare this morning. He's thought of as a conservative but is that the truth?

It now falls to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to send the contempt citation to a grand jury, an unlikely outcome. Here's what might happen instead.

House Republicans have already scheduled a July 11 vote to repeal the health care law.

The Stolen Valor Act decision is the Rodney Dangerfield of the day's Supreme Court rulings -- it's not getting any respect or attention amid the flurry of that other decision announced Thursday, when the court upheld the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court's approval of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unambiguously good for American business, a George Mason University analyst said Thursday, a view also expressed by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

In a 5-4 decision that shocked the country, the U.S. Supreme sided with the Obama administration and upheld the individual mandate provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The decision's impact will be felt across the country, from small business owners to those without health insurance. It marks the latest landmark Supreme Court ruling that affects our daily lives.

While Republicans and most conservatives might well be disappointed by Thursday?s Supreme Court decision to uphold President Barack Obama?s Affordable Health Act, one of their own is the person of the day: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

The American Hospital Association praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to affirm the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The largest association of U.S. physicians praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act as a key to expanding health care to some 30 million Americans.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal judges to uphold the law's individual mandate.

Worries about present-day issues overshadowed unsavory history this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 24-hour whirlwind visit to Israel.

The New York City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a bill to require some city employers to pay their workers at least $11.50 an hour, or $10 hourly with benefits. And it's likely to happen.