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In a sign of possible progress in bipartisan U.S. deficit talks, Republicans seem more flexible on corporate taxes, a change that could help the congressional super committee chart the country's path back to fiscal health.

An overseas corporate profit repatriation tax holiday could boost consumption and U.S. tax revenues even if companies decide to return cash to shareholders, according to a new study published on Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, has drafted a memo for his party on tying Republicans to the Tea Party.

A Wisconsin state lawmaker Wednesday proposed a plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating presidential electoral votes.

New polls from both Time Magazine and CBS/The Wall Street Journal shows that more Americans are supportive of Occupy Wall Street than the Tea Party.

Dear Tim Cook, Apple CEO: Now that you are essentially betting Apple on iOS 5 and a whole family of iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs that run it, you've just been handed a great case study by your Canadian rival, Research in Motion. For three days, BlackBerry customers worldwide couldn't access e-mails. This, the company said, was due to a server problem in England.

Stagnation is probably the best many of the world's biggest developed economies can hope for over the next year, with several facing a significant chance of recession, Reuters polls of around 350 economists showed on Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's popularity has fueled speculation that she will be President Barack Obama's running mate in 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain believes he can win the support of many Southern black voters. Don't believe for a minute that he can't.

Gibson Guitar Corp.'s chief slammed the U.S. government on Wednesday for sending armed agents to raid two Tennessee factories under a law aimed at curbing the illegal harvest of tropical hardwoods.

President Barack Obama has pledged to continue to fight for Congressional action on his $447 billion jobs bill, even if parts of it have to be eliminated to attract Congressional Republican votes.

As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.

New Hampshire is considering moving up its Republican primary to as early as Dec. 6 as states vie for more influence in picking the party's nominee for the 2012 presidential election, a senior state official said Wednesday.

China has launched an intense lobbying effort in Washington to kill legislation that would punish it for its currency system, in the latest display of its more sophisticated approach to influence U.S. policy.

The United States will use a finance ministers' meeting in Paris this weekend to ratchet up pressure on Europe to deal with its debt crisis swiftly before it derails a fragile global recovery, a top U.S. Treasury Department official said on Wednesday.

If Rick Perry is going to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, he'll have to do it based on something other than his debate performances.

The number of jobs waiting to be filled fell in August, underscoring the pain in the labor market where millions of unemployed workers have been shut out of the economic recovery.

Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as Fast and Furious.

President Obama's chief of staff will leave in 2013, while vice president will stay if the president is reelected.

Rick Perry came in like a lion. But he's close to going out of the Republican presidential nominee race as a lamb.

The U.S. State Department issued a Worldwide Travel Alert on Tuesday due to the Iran terror plot.