Archive for January, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.

Still, the…

BEIJING (AP) — China tried to increase control over its domestic media in 2009, issuing orders not to cover several topics including ethnic rioting in Xinjiang and corruption by government officials, an international press freedom group said.

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Early Thursday morning, a giant crane behind Kennedy Space Center’s landmark Vehicle Assembly Building slowly hoisted a steel cage and set it down on top of nine others, completing a 355-foot tall launch tower for NASA’s new Ares I rocket.

Two workers…

Getting your arms around Florida’s Tea Party movement is like trying to hug a jellyfish: There’s no good place to grab on, and if there were, you’d probably get stung.

Ask U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, a conservative Republican from Bartow who sees potential in…

No decision has been made on whether to change the current plan to hold the September 11 terrorist attack trial in a civilian court in lower Manhattan, White House officials said Sunday.

One casualty of President Obama’s first year in office: the notion that he would transform a political system mired in gridlock and secrecy, opening a window to the legislative process.

That hasn’t happened. Instead of healthcare negotiations broadcast…

President Obama wants Congress to quickly approve a jobs bill in the range of $100 billion, a top White House official said Sunday, reflecting the growing political anxiety among Democrats about stubbornly high unemployment in an election year.

The…