NPR 2011-06-29

France's Finance Minister Christine Legarde will become the first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund. She was elected today with the backing of the world's major economies. The changes at the IMF come during tumultuous times for the organi

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress are engaged in an intense rush to settle on a plan to raise the countrys borrowing limit beyond the current total of more than $14 trillion. It is an effort aimed at averting a possible default on the countrys

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