EXPLAINER: If Newsom recall fails, no winning candidate
WASHINGTON (AP) — California voters are being asked to weigh in on two questions in Tuesday's recall election for Gov. Gavin Newson. But it’s possible The Associated Press will only declare the winner in one of the races.
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EXPLAINER: If Newsom recall fails, no winning candidate
WASHINGTON (AP) — California voters are being asked to weigh in on two questions in Tuesday's recall election for Gov. Gavin Newson. But it’s possible The Associated Press will only declare the winner in one of the races.
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EXPLAINER: If Newsom recall fails, no winning candidate
WASHINGTON (AP) — California voters are being asked to weigh in on two questions in Tuesday's recall election for Gov. Gavin Newson. But it’s possible The Associated Press will only declare the winner in one of the races.
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Daines opposes current version of tax bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are considering a trigger that would automatically increase taxes if their sweeping legislation fails to generate as much revenue as they expect. It’s an effort to mollify deficit hawks who worry that tax cuts for businesses and individuals will add to the nation’s already mounting debt.
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Daines opposes current version of tax bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are considering a trigger that would automatically increase taxes if their sweeping legislation fails to generate as much revenue as they expect. It’s an effort to mollify deficit hawks who worry that tax cuts for businesses and individuals will add to the nation’s already mounting debt.
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Social Security at 80
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Say what?
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Republicans: Obama giving immigrants 'amnesty bonuses'
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The size of recent history
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Lawmakers fume over lost emails in IRS probe
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A rare flash?
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House investigators: Disability judges are too lax
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IRS scandals threaten funding for health care law
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Justice investigating IRS targeting of tea party
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Collecting other people's sales tax
WASHINGTON - A bill to require Internet shoppers to pay sales taxes for online purchases may be cruising through the Senate but it will soon hit a roadblock in the House.
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Senate bill jeopardizes tax-free online shopping
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Taxing the rich
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Expect small Social Security benefit increase in '13
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Romney clinches GOP nomination
WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals.
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Playing the name game
WASHINGTON - Reality TV is giving birth to some of the most popular baby names. No, not Snooki. But Mason, as in Kourtney Kardashian's son, jumped 10 spots to become the second most popular name for newborn boys in 2011.
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GOP superdelegates: It's over, Romney is party nominee
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A second shot at victory
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Is it getting late for Santorum, Gingrich?
WASHINGTON - No, it's not over yet. But at this rate Mitt Romney's rivals won't catch him unless they pull off an unlikely fight at the Republican National Convention in August.
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Prepare to pay?
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Social Security to hand out COLA raise
WASHINGTON - Social Security recipients will get a raise in January - their first increase in benefits since 2009. It's expected to be about 3.5 percent.
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GOP candidates revive private Social Security idea
WASHINGTON - Most of the top Republicans running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, reviving a contentious issue that fizzled under President George W. Bush after Democrats relentlessly attacked it.
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IRS eases liability rule for spouse's tax debt
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service is making it easier for some "innocent spouses" to escape responsibility for the tax debt of their husband or wife.
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Federal jobless tax for employers expiring quietly
WASHINGTON - Nearly every private employer in the U.S. will get a tax cut today.
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Poll: Medicare doesn't have to be cut
WASHINGTON - They're not buying it. Most Americans say they don't believe Medicare has to be cut to balance the federal budget, and ditto for Social Security, a new poll shows.
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Finances look worse for Medicare, Social Security
WASHINGTON - The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, draining the trust funds supporting them faster than expected and intensifying the need for Congress to shore up the massive benefit programs, the government said Friday.
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IRS paid $513M in undeserved homebuyer credits
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than a half-billion dollars in homebuyer tax credits to people who probably didn't qualify, a government investigator said Friday.
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Poll: Most say taxes are fair
WASHINGTON - For all the complaining this time of year, most Americans actually think the taxes they pay are fair.
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Medicare rise could mean no COLA
WASHINGTON - Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments.
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Republicans seize on unemployment rate hike
WASHINGTON - With unemployment rising, incoming House Speaker John Boehner vowed Friday that Republicans will show the way toward extending tax cuts in 2011 if the outgoing Democrats fail to do it sooner.
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GOP lawmakers take tough stand on tax cuts
WASHINGTON - Fresh off big victories on Election Day, Republicans in Congress feel empowered in their fight to extend tax cuts that expire in January, including those for the wealthy.
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No Social Security COLA expected for 2011
WASHINGTON - As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
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Pelosi ponders middle-class tax cut vote before election
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, under pressure to send Democrats home to campaign with the strongest possible closing argument, said Friday she is considering calling a vote on extending middle-class tax cuts this week.
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Expiring tax cuts hit taxpayers at every level
WASHINGTON - Here's some pressure for lawmakers: If they don't reach agreement on extending soon-to-expire Bush-era tax cuts, nearly all their constituents back home will get big tax increases.
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Social Security compromise hope dims due to rhetoric
WASHINGTON - Prospects are bleak for fixing Social Security's financial problems as the government retirement insurance program celebrates its 75th anniversary this week.
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A classroom full of Bellas?
WASHINGTON - Mom and Dad may be looking to popular vampire books and the first family for baby names: Cullen is on the rise for boys and Malia for girls. But Miley and Jonas are down, proving that acclaim can be fleeting.
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Tax day not a worry for many
WASHINGTON - Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it's simply somebody else's problem. About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions …
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