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Most red ink ever: $9 trillion over next decade
By News on Aug 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion - more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy....Interrogation probe steams those on right and left
By News on Aug 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives and liberals alike reacted critically, though for different reasons, to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to appoint a federal prosecutor to investigate possible abuses by CIA interrogators in using harsh tactics on terror detainees....41 killed in Afghan blast caused by 5 car bombs
By News on Aug 25, 2009
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Five car bombs detonated in a single simultaneous blast Tuesday in Afghanistan's largest southern city, flattening buildings and killing at least 41 people, officials said....Karzai, top rival run nearly even in Afghan vote
By News on Aug 25, 2009
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KABUL (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah both have roughly 40 percent of the nationwide vote for president with 10 percent of polling stations counted, the Afghan election commission said Tuesday....Obama breaks vacation, keeps Bernanke at Fed
By News on Aug 25, 2009
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OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) -- President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wants to keep Ben Bernanke on as Fed chairman, saying he shepherded America through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression....