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Boehner will support middle-class tax cuts…but
House Minority Leader John Boehner says he would vote for President Obama’s plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy, if that were the only option…
Gay candidates add to mid-term election mix
Laure Rondeau, an 82-year-old Catholic, supports Providence Mayor David Cicilline for Congress because he wants to get the troops out of Afghanistan and says Washington is losing sight of what’s…
Poverty increasing under Obama’s Presidency
The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama‘s watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching…
Message to a divided America: Islam is not the enemy
President Barack Obama told a deeply polarized America that Islam is not the enemy as somber ceremonies marked an unusually tense ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Moving remembrance…
Controversies stalk 9/11 observances
Politics threatened to overshadow a day of mourning Saturday for nearly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims amid a polarizing national debate over a planned mosque blocks from the site where Islamic…
After nine years, bin Laden still at large
Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Barack Obama said the U.S. has forced Osama bin Laden “deep underground” but Americans will face an expanded terror threat for years…
Facts don’t support hype of Obama’s failed health care law
President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and…
Democrats desert Obama on taxes
Democrats in Congress are distancing themselves from President Barack Obama’s push to let taxes rise for the wealthiest Americans, fearing it will further harm them in November’s mid-term elections. Obama…
To burn or not to burn: That is the question
Will he or won’t he? Negotiations between a local Muslim cleric and the leader of a tiny Florida church who had threatened to publicly burn copies of Islam’s holy text…
Obama to Koran-burning minister: ‘Call off your stunt’
President Barack Obama implored a Florida minister to call off his Quran-burning “stunt,” saying it would jeopardize U.S. troops abroad. Obama told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview aired…
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