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President Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to pass a package of limited spending cuts and tax changes to avoid the across-the-board reductions set to take effect on March 1.
House Republicans staked out what they cast as a middle-ground option, pushing an approach that could include legalization but not a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
President Obama’s time in Israel could be tense as he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to move past years of friction. Mr. Obama will also go to Jordan and the West Bank.
The finding could have repercussions for Europe’s détente with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is an influential force in Middle East politics.
Lindsey Vonn, whose ski racing career has mixed stirring triumph with frightening spills, tore two knee ligaments and was airlifted from the Alpine world championships.
British lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the law, a gain for a bill that Prime Minister David Cameron has put at the center of his drive to modernize his Conservative Party.
Some executives at Standard & Poor’s pushed to revise the firm’s rating models in hopes of preserving market share.
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, the nation’s first death-row inmate exonerated by DNA, is pressing to end capital punishment in Maryland, which sought his execution.
Jonathan Lippman, New York’s chief judge, on Tuesday called for an overhaul of the bail process for defendants.
Maysville, a new restaurant on West 26th Street named after the birthplace of Kentucky bourbon, is a confident restatement of the American tavern.
Landscape painters engaged with the Civil War on a metaphorical level.
Negotiations with Iran won’t be successful if Tehran believes it can wait out international pressure.
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