President Barack Obama made it official today in a speech to Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He said US combat troops will be out of Iraq by August of next year. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Camp Lejeune. The president's announcement mea

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To say stock market investors are pessimistic as the week winds down would be something of an understatement. All three of the major stock market indexes ended the session lower today. The fresh bear market lows followed remarks from Senate Banking

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The proposed budget that President Obama will deliver to Congress this coming week will reportedly seek to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years. Mr. Obama says it's a goal that is crucial to the nation's financial future. It will

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The nation's Republican governors are expressing sharply different views about whether to accept federal funding from the administration's stimulus plan and about how best to respond to the nations economic crisis. The National Governors Association

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Meeting with his economic advisors and others at the White House today, President Barack Obama said even with the economic challenges facing the nation, he plans to cut the nations budget deficit by half by the end of his first term in office. Presi

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President Barack Obama is expected to discuss details of his administration's economic recovery package in an address before a joint session of Congress tonight. Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Mr. Obama will be honest about where we

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President Barack Obama today released a more than 3.5-trillion-dollar spending plan that will raise taxes for the richest Americans while also laying the groundwork for universal health care. The plan also forecast the biggest deficit since World Wa

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Details of the Obama administration's budget blueprint scheduled to be released tomorrow are beginning to trickle out. Among other things, the plan is expected to set a goal of cutting the blooming budget deficit in half by the end of the president'

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