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Budget Battles

  • Why the U.S. Is Crashing in the Middle East

    By Patrick Smith

    Is it too soon to suggest that the Obama administration’s Middle East policy is collapsing? An unusual spurt of news from across the region points to failed US policies: (1) The U.S. has been...

  • Threat Linked to Al Qaeda to Close U.S. Embassies

    By Anne Gearan, The Washington Post

    U.S. embassies and other installations across a wide arc of the Middle East and North Africa prepared Saturday to close or take additional precautions against a threat linked to al-Qaeda that could...

  • Can McCain Help Obama Win Fiscal Fight with GOP?

    By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters

    To the far-right in the Republican Party, there is no mistake: In a party that generally brooks no compromise with Obama, Sen. John McCain is the compromiser-in-chief. He's negotiating with the White...

  • Some GOP House Members Want to Kill Sequestration

    By Eric Pianin

    The Obama administration views the collapse of House Republican support for deep spending cuts in transportation and housing programs as a good omen that it’s possible to forge a budget compromise...

  • Canada Warns Obama on Keystone XL Pipeline

    By John Daly, Oilprice.com

    If President Obama decides to reject the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, Canada will increase the amount of trains and trucks carrying oil through the U.S., which is just as risky.