Corporations with overseas operations would also face a minimum tax on their foreign earnings, new tax benefits would be given to incentivize U.S. manufacturers while taxes on oil and gas companies would reportedly see their taxes go up while losing many large deductions and subsidies. Full Story

Heritage defines dependency as significantly depending on the government for help in two of the following basic expense items: housing, food, shelter, income security or higher education. Full Story

Rendell is part of a wealthy investment group that includes New Jersey Democratic powerplayer George Norcross and Philadelphia Flyers owner and Ed Snider. Full Story

The complex deal wrought in overnight negotiations buys time to stabilize the 17-nation currency bloc and strengthen its financial firewalls, but it leaves deep doubts about Greece's ability to recover and avoid default in the longer term.Fullstory

The polling company said this suggests that it is "premature" to assume the economy will not feature prominently in the 2012 election season.Fullstory

Symons, fresh out of college, entered this brave new world thinking she'd do pretty much what her parents' generation did: Work for just one or two companies over about 45 years before bidding farewell to co-workers at a retirement party and heading off into her sunset years with a pension.Fullstory

He calls Chevrolet's $39,995 extended-range electric car, the Volt, "an interesting experimental car," but says that the average income of buyers is $170,000. He notes that the Obama administration wants to raise subsidies from $7,500 to $10,000 on electric cars. Full Story

"It criminalizes hard-working and law-abiding citizens such as farmers and sport shooters, and it has been a billion-dollar boondoggle left to us by the previous Liberal government."

Quebec MP Maxime Bernier said MPs and gun-rights advocates will celebrate together Parliament Hill after Wednesday evening's vote.Fullstory

Senior Pentagon officials are making no secret of the fact that despite the apparent stepped-up drumbeat to war with Iran, they believe a strike on the country is "not prudent" right now. Full Story

The disturbance occurred just minutes before President Obama was scheduled to depart for San Francisco. His plane ultimately took off at 11:40 a.m. PT without incident.Fullstory

After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.says Pat Buchanan.Fullstory

Santorum was reacting to criticism of comments Thursday by Forster Friess, who made ill-advised remarks about birth control. He said he shouldn't be held accountable for every comment by one of his supporters, and said the media was playing "gotcha politics."Fullstory

Santorum is finding strength among the highly motivated segment of Republican voters who have tended to dominate party turnout in primary elections and caucuses. He appears to be ignoring the fact that voters turned against his hard-right politics when he was badly defeated in a 2006 bid for a third term in the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. Full Story

Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus announced the agreement late Wednesday, capping a long day of wrangling over final details of the measure, which is a top priority of President Barack Obama. Full Story

Asked in an interview if she would be interested in jumping in the race if there is no clear winner by the time Republicans gather this summer for their nominating convention, Palin said she would "do whatever I could to help." Full Story

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad oversaw the insertion of the first Iranian domestically-made fuel rod into a research reactor in northern Tehran, the country's official IRNA news agency reported. Full Story

But apparently Xi Jinping (shee jeen ping) remembered the 1985 stay fondly because he insisted on returning this week to Muscatine, a small farming community he toured to learn about crop and livestock practices. Full Story

Most shockingly, a rightwing Greek newspaper depicts Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, in a Nazi uniform above the headline "Memorandum macht frei" - an allusion to the memorandum in which Greece's foreign creditors demand more austerity measures and to the Auschwitz slogan. Full Story

Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters for America, had told friends and co-workers that he feared he was in imminent danger from right-wing assassins and needed a security team to keep him safe. Full Story

A BBC reporter on board said an Iranian patrol boat at one point passed by two miles (3.2km) from the carrier. The carrier was accompanied by a US cruiser and destroyer. Full Story

"He supports corporate tax reform that would reduce expenditures and loopholes, lower rates for people investing and creating jobs in the U.S., due so further for manufacturing, and that we need to, as we have the Buffett Rule and the individual tax reform, we need a global minimum tax so that people have the assurance that nobody is escaping doing their fair share as part of a race to the bottom or having our tax code actually subsidized and facilitate people moving their funds to tax havens," Sperling said. Full Story

In 2008, average gasoline prices had hit inflation-adjusted records nationally by the summer, but they didn't climb above $3.50 a gallon across the U.S. that year until April 21, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. It happened again last year, but not until March 6.Fullstory

The European Union on Monday called the Greek parliament's approval of a further round of budget cuts a "crucial step forward" but added that it would still take some time before the second bailout is delivered. Full Story

Syria has flatly rejected a call by the Arab League to deploy peacekeepers to end the country's escalating conflict, while Britain has insisted that no western troops could be involved in such a mission. Full Story

"I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership. But unfortunately she is taking Europe in the wrong direction," the financier and philanthropist told the weekly Der Spiegel.Fullstory

Krauthammer referred to a Washington Post column in which David Ignatius indicated, generally, when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta thought such an attack might happen.Fullstory

Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase "zone of immunity" to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike. Full Story

The executive action will circumvent Congress, which has been stuck on how to rewrite the law. Full Story

Federal and state officials planned to announce the settlement Thursday morning in Washington after putting the finishing touches on the deal following a marathon negotiating session that ended after midnight Thursday morning. Full Story

With his triumphs, Mr. Santorum was also suddenly presenting new competition to Newt Gingrich as the chief alternative to Mr. Romney, the front-runner. Where Mr. Gingrich has won one state, South Carolina, Mr. Santorum has now won four, including Iowa. Full Story

That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium. Salty snacks actually came in at the bottom of the list compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Full Story

The nuclear power chillingly declared it "has the means" to retaliate unless the carnage ceases.
Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan told The Sun in an exclusive interview that his country's relations with America are at their lowest ebb. Full Story

David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser to President Barack Obama, said the administration had heard the Church's concerns and never intended to "abridge anyone's religious freedom."
But he gave no sign that the administration would reverse course under intensifying pressure from Church leaders and political heat from Republican presidential candidates. Full Story

Several thousand demonstrators from the public and private-sector unions braved the heavy rainfall, gathering outside Parliament to voice their opposition at the latest proposed measures to secure a ?130bn (£108bn) bailout package. Full Story

The state Senate voted 31-19 in favor of fees that could raise $180 million from the industry in the first year, while expanding regulations for the booming industry, including a requirement for online disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The measure, which could pass the House on Tuesday night, would fund road work and environmental cleanups and give local governments the power to impose the fees on their local wells. Full Story

The Obama administration, though, pushed back on the idea -- stressing instead the options of humanitarian assistance and increased international pressure. Full Story

A new GOP-leaning Rasmussen poll posits a general election match-up where Santorum beats the president by one percentage point, 45 to 44, while Romney falls short by four percent and Newt Gingrich trails by eight. More immediately, other polls suggest he may do well in today's Minnesota caucuses and the non-binding primary in Missouri. Full Story

Catholic leaders complained that the rule would force them to subsidize medical procedures to which they morally object. Full Story

The bill, which passed the Senate 75-20 Monday, speeds the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology. It also requires the FAA to open U.S. skies to drone flights within four years. Full Story

You can't feed a family on potato chips and Mountain Dew, which is the goal: feeding hungry people," Florida State Sen. Ronda Storms (R), who introduced a bill to limit what food stamp recipients can buy, told TPM. Full Story

As preliminary vote totals come in from Nevada caucus sites, the candidates have already turned their attention to elections in a trio of states -- Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Maine is also holding municipal caucuses throughout the week that will conclude one week from Saturday. Full Story

"What's frustrated people is that I've not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes. But what we have been able to do is move in the right direction," Obama said. Full Story

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring's fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway-an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.Fullstory

Sure, it wasn't so nice for President Obama in October 2009, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics declared the rate was 10 percent. But exactly a year from Election Day 2012, the rate began a precipitous plunge, first to 8.9 percent, then the next month, to 8.7, then to 8.5. And just last week, the BLS said the rate had fallen all the way down to 8.3 percent.Fullstory

Labrador, who is Puerto Rican, faced off in 2010 against a primary opponent who insisted in a debate that Puerto Rico is a foreign country.Fullstory

To hear him tell it, the United States will collapse under the weight of its health care system and basic freedoms will be history. Iran will annihilate Israel and then South Carolina if Iran isn't blocked from building a nuclear weapon. And divorce will yield higher taxes for all Americans.Fullstory

All of Iran's nuclear faculties are vulnerable to a military strike, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Thursday, calling the potential of a nuclear Iran a "nightmare to the free world." Fullstory

President Ahmadinejad made the remarks at the inauguration ceremony of the 2nd International Conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema in Tehran on Thursday. Fullstory

The change came three weeks after The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that the Republican administration, without any public announcement, had told the federal government that it would impose an asset test that critics said met the most stringent limits allowed by federal law. The move brought harsh criticism from Democrats and advocates for the poor. Full Story

Well, fancy meeting you here! The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., was the setting for an unexpected Watergate reunion on Saturday.
John Dean was in Southern California for a legal symposium when he and a friend decided to check out the library's exhibits. The plan for the former White House counsel-turned-witness for the prosecution was to keep a low profile - signing in under a fake name and pulling a ballcap over his face, his colleague Jim Robenalt, a Cleveland lawyer, told us: "He's very controversial there, if you can imagine."

Trump is set to announce his support Thursday in Las Vegas, where Gingrich is campaigning in advance of Nevada's Republican caucuses on Saturday. Full Story

The pronouncement brought groans from the thousands of people gathered for the annual event at Gobbler's Knob, the tiny hill in Punxsutawney, which is about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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"Newt didn't call after Iowa or New Hampshire," Gov. Romney revealed. "I called him after South Carolina, his win there, but he didn't call last night. The other candidates all called. I don't know. I guess Speaker Gingrich doesn't have our phone number."
Calling your opponent after a victory is customary, like shaking hands with the other team at the end of a Little League game, but it's one of those things that nobody notices unless some kids spits in his hand first. Full Story

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) threatened Tuesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department did not provide certain documents in response to the committee's subpoena.
In a letter to Holder, Issa wrote that "this committee will have no alternative but to move forward with proceedings to hold you in contempt of Congress" if Holder and the DOJ didn't produce documents they demanded relating to the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Full Story

Republicans included the proposal in the payroll tax bill the House passed in December, and are bringing it back up for a vote separately as part of a package of bills they want included in a final agreement extending the payroll tax cut and other measures through 2012.
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