The increase in the debt ceiling is only half of what President Obama was asking for and will therefore create another round of default trauma when the next debt ceiling is reached. I
High inflation and soaring real estate prices have thrown thousands of residents into dire straits.
In the rush to strike a debt deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. Government default, one question has been overlooked: will the debt deal increase or decrease the U.S. unemployment rate?
Opinion: When speaking of Breivik's Oslo, Norway attacks, how far can politicians go?
Fulfilling a goal set out in the new health care law, the Department of Health and Human Services mandated on Monday that health insurers cover the cost of a range of women's health services, including birth control.
Pakistan cannot afford to antagonize China.
South African police may reopen a corruption probe into a multi-billion dollar arms deal involving several companies and high profile officials including President Jacob Zuma to see if charges can be instituted a decade after the transaction.
Both the House and the Senate plan to vote Monday night on a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
Nine people drowned in Moscow Sunday when two boats collided.
A joy ride turned deadly in the Russian capital late on Saturday night
It's a debt deal that isn't ideal or loved. So why is it getting a vote on Capitol Hill?
Illinois governor Pat Quinn is poised to sign legislation giving undocumented immigrant students access to educational benefits, making Illinois the second state in less than a week to pass legislation aimed at bolstering education for undocumented immigrants.
Millions of British private sector workers face a very bleak old age, according to a pension review by The Workplace Retirement Income Commission (WRIC).
The La Linea boss is wanted for 1,500 murders
Opinion polls have provided the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) with enormous levels of support, just one week after Breivik murdered scores of Labour members on Utøya island, outside of Oslo.
The next battle already looms on the legislative horizon: it's the battle over the 2001/2003 Bush tax cuts.
Matt Damon delivers moving speech in protest against standardized testing.
Celina Cass, 11, has been missing for almost one week. She was last seen around 9 p.m. on July 25 in her West Stewartstown home. She is about 5 feet 5 inches tall with long, brown hair and hazel eyes and was last seen wearing a pink shirt, pink pullover, blue shorts and shoes, according to the FBI.
The military budget has not been spared in Congress' proposed debt deal bill.
President Goodluck Jonathan needs to end the violence in his country.
Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the Trinidad Express that she was advised that the crash happened because of low visibility because of the rainfall. She also said decisions were made that if the airplane couldn't safely land then it would return to Trinidad.
Foxconn has announced that it would be replacing its workers with 1 million robots in the coming three years.
With the debt deal negotiations done, the focus now shifts to the Republican-led House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will try to attract moderate Democrats to offset the likely high number of Tea Party House members who will vote against the bill. A Senate vote on the bill also could occur later Monday.
Call it dictatorial or simply ironic, the residents of a Bedouin village in Israel's Negev desert are facing peculiar circumstances, where they are being forced to pay for the government expenses involved in demolishing their own homes!
The biological father of Celina Cass, an 11-year-old girl missing from her New Hampshire home for almost a week, is pleading for her return.
Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions.
China's media are curbing combative reporting of a high-speed train disaster after what observers said were orders from the ruling Communist Party's propaganda arm, which on Monday drew fresh scorn from Internet users demanding unfettered news.
China said on Monday that Islamic militants had mounted an attack that left 11 people dead in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which announced a crackdown on "illegal" religious activities at the start of the Muslim fasting month.
The tentative deal to avoid a crushing debt default is at best a mild relief for the U.S. economy that nearly stalled in the first half of the year and has yet to show signs of any realistic pickup.
The White House has one important tool in its arsenal to influence congressional talks over further deficit reduction measures in the coming months: the expiry of Bush-era tax cuts at the end of 2012.
