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AP source: Geithner may depart after budget talks
By News on Jun 30, 2011
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A person familiar with his thinking says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT'-nur) is considering leaving the administration following the current round of budget negotiations....Minnesota braces for shutdown over budget impasse
By News on Jun 30, 2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A bitter budget standoff sent Minnesota spiraling Thursday toward a wide-ranging government shutdown, threatening to shutter state parks on the brink of the Fourth of July weekend and lay off tens of thousands of workers if a deal isn't struck by midnight between the state's Democratic governor and GOP lawmakers....
In CIA case, Justice to probe death of 2 detainees
By News on Jun 30, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department inquiry into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees has led to a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two people while they were in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday....
Federal jobless tax for employers expires quietly
By News on Jun 30, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly every private employer in the U.S. will get a tax cut on Friday, thanks to the expiration of a 35-year-old "temporary" unemployment tax....Bachmann says miscarriage shaped family priorities
By News on Jun 30, 2011
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) -- Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said Wednesday that a "devastating" miscarriage led her to become a foster parent to 23 children....
