March 2, 2011
President Barack Obama responds to a question during a news conference at the White House in Washington February 15, 2011. The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to extend government funding for two more weeks, a move that would avert a federal shutdown but do nothing to resolve a bitter debate over the federal budget. [...]
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January 31, 2010
A man, bleeding from the head after a fight between suspected looters and security personnel, squats outside a household appliances store in downtown Port au Prince January 29 Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the US military for treatment in the US, raising fears some will die in a dispute [...]
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January 28, 2010
The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday decided to keep a key interest rate unchanged at a record low of between zero to 0.25 percent to prop up the economy. SIGNS OF ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENTInformation received recently “suggested that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the deterioration in the labor market is abating,” the Fed [...]
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December 26, 2009
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a landmark healthcare bill, which will expand healthcare insurance coverage to 94 percent of the Americans. U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid (C) speaks during a news conference in Washington Dec. 24, 2009. The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a landmark healthcare bill, which will expand healthcare insurance coverage [...]
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December 16, 2009
U.S. Senate passed on Sunday a 1.1-trillion-U.S. dollars spending package for fiscal year 2010, except for the Defense Department. The Democratic-controlled Senate approved the bill at a vote of57-35. The year-end package that covers about half of all federal programs, now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. The 1,000-plus-page bill brings together six [...]
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October 30, 2009
U.S. House leaders unveiled Thursday a unified healthcare reform legislation which includes a controversial public health insurance option. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi unveils the House Democrat’s Healthcare plan on Capitol Hill in Washington October 29, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)That marks another milestone in the endeavor launched by U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this year [...]
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October 16, 2009
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he is more worried about the increasing U.S. debt than the weakening dollar during a meeting here on Thursday. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the U.S., Oct. 15, 2009. Greenspan said on Thursday that he was more [...]
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September 24, 2009
The U.S. Federal Reserved on Wednesday decided to leave a key interest rate at a record low in an obvious effort to foster a nascent economy recovery. Wrapping a two-day meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said in a statement that it will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 [...]
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September 22, 2009
The world’s leading biotechnology company Med Immune said on Monday that the U.S. government has more than tripled its order of A/H1N1 flu vaccines from the Maryland-based giant. A syringe extracts an experimental H1N1 swine flu vaccine from a vial before being administered to a medical volunteer during early trials with medical volunteers at the [...]
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July 24, 2009
More than 40 people, including three mayors, other elected and appointed officials and Jewish clergy were arrested in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York on Thursday in an investigation into public corruption, international money laundering and human organ marketing, authorities said. Photo taken on July 23, 2009 shows the Federal Court in [...]
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