AP – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president’s new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation’s wealthiest families and the alternative would be to seek more painful cuts in other government programs such as defense, Social Security and Medicare.
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GOP critics hit Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget
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AP – Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation’s last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules.
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Police clear tents from Occupy site in DC; 7 held
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AP – Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators.
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FBI shooting range is popular deer hangout
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The Christian Science Monitor – The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine the constitutionality of President Obamaâs health-care reform law, wading into a controversy that has divided political leaders, lawmakers, and much of the nation.
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Supreme Court agrees to settle fight over Obama health-care law
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AP – After Tropical Storm Irene forced an unprecedented closure of the nation’s largest mass transit system, New York City subways resumed service Monday with a major test as millions of commuters ventured to work for the first time since the storm hit.
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NYC’s subway back on track for commute after Irene
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AP – Texas Gov. Rick Perry asked Christians to turn to God for answers to the nation’s troubles as he held court Saturday over a national prayer rally attended by thousands of evangelical conservatives, an important constituency should the Republican seek the GOP presidential nomination.
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Perry: Turn to God for answers to nation’s woes (AP)
Reuters – Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez acknowledged he had surgery for cancer, shaking the political system he has dominated for more than a decade and alarming supporters counting on him to win re-election in 2012.
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Chavez cancer upends Venezuelan politics (Reuters)
AFP – President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that dialogue could lead to a new constitution and even the end of his Baath party’s monopoly on power but refused to reform Syria under “chaos.”
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Syria’s Assad vows change but not under ‘chaos’ (AFP)
AP – House Republicans lined up to reject their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing.
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House to reject debt limit increase without cuts (AP)
AP – More than half the states are not complying with a post-Virginia Tech law that requires them to share the names of mentally ill people with the national background-check system to prevent them from buying guns, an Associated Press review has found.
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Few states follow mental-health gun law (AP)