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Obamacare 'Tax Increase' Debate Heats Up Sunday Morning News Shows

It's not a tax. It's a penalty. President Barack Obama's administration and its allies in Congress carpet-bombed the morning news talk show Sunday with those seven words, holding the line in a PR counter-offensive the White House has been engaging on since Friday.
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US Refuses Issa Request To Observe Asia Trade Talks

U.S. trade officials on Thursday told a Republican lawmaker at the center of a legal fight with the Obama administration he cannot sit in on trade talks next week in San Diego between the United States and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Colorado Fires: Waldo Canyon Wildfire Spreads

Colorado's devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire that has burnt down over 6,500 acres of dry timber since Saturday grew ferocious on Wednesday, spreading to an area of 67 square kilometers (26 square miles), while increasing threat for over 20,000 homes and other buildings.
Congressman Darrell Issa, at left, and Attorney General Eric Holder, at right.

Issa Charges Obama With 'Fast and Furious' Coverup

The Republican chairman of a House panel is accusing President Obama of either obscuring his involvement in the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program or improperly invoking executive privilege
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Fake Europe In Real China [SLIDESHOW]

You don't have to go far from China these days to get the taste of living in Europe. There's just one problem: it's all a big fake, as these photos show
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Nominee For Envoy To Iraq Drops Out Over Affair With Reporter

President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq withdrew his name on Monday after Republican lawmakers questioned his suitability following revelations that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with a journalist who later became his wife.

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