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• U.S. deficit impact could be felt for decades
Tuesday’s report that the U.S. budget deficit will swell to $1.2 trillion in the current fiscal year isn’t a complete surprise. President-elect Barack Obama warned this week of "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come." But the grim projection ...
• Afghanistan detainees want to sue for freedom
Jan. 6: Monday's surprise announcement that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA points to a major change in direction for U.S. intelligence policy. NBC's Andrea Mitchell ...
• Rice pushes for softer U.N. Gaza measure
NEW YORK -- Secretary Condoleezza Rice is bouncing from meeting to meeting with European and Arab Foreign Ministers here at the United Nations, trying to convince Arab leaders not to push for a Security Council resolution on the crisis in Gaza, but ...
• China, U.S. praise 'pingpong diplomacy'
Jan. 7: Players from the first U.S. national table tennis team to be invited to compete in China recall the era that pre-existed diplomatic ties between the U.S. and China. BEIJING - A senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that relations with China ...
• U.S.-funded program fails to stop Gaza tunnels
RAFAH, Egypt - Angry at Hamas' ability to fire rockets at Israel, the United States last year allocated $23 million to help train Egyptian officials to stop the smuggling into Gaza through tunnels at a border plagued by crisis and corruption. Months ...