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A House Republican said that Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he was determined to pass a debt-limit increase and was willing to approve a measure with votes from both parties.
President Obama on Thursday said the only thing keeping the government at a halt was Speaker John A. Boehner’s refusal to allow a vote on a full spending bill.
The agreement on Thursday underscored the two countries’ efforts to respond to growing challenges by China and North Korea.
A boat said to be carrying roughly 500 people sank after a fire began onboard. Above, the bodies of victims, mostly from Eritrea, Ghana and Somalia, were moved ashore.
Because some states are not expanding Medicaid, two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers who do not have insurance will not benefit from the health law.
The east coast commuter line, one of the nation’s busiest, has endured an ill-timed procession of misfortunes.
A witness to a 1995 murder said he lied in a conviction handled by a former Brooklyn detective, Louis Scarcella.
Hint: The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with old theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.
Each fall, an army of buyers and pickers descends on Chemult, Ore., to hunt matsutake mushrooms, which no longer fetch the high prices they once did.
“The Circle,” the new novel by Dave Eggers, describes a woman at the center of a Google-like social media company with a deep reach into its users’ lives.
Republicans who detest the E.P.A. weren’t upset that the agency furloughed 90 percent of its employees.
We’re brawling over the referendum without discussing what it means.
The stage version of John Grisham’s novel “A Time to Kill” hits Broadway as its hero takes on a new case.
In “The Velocity of Autumn” at Arena Stage in Washington, Estelle Parsons is a feisty old woman who becomes an urban terrorist.
Tori Amos’s first musical, “The Light Princess,” features a heroine whose grief sends her skyward.
A home in the upscale Hahnwald district of Cologne is on the market for $2.55 million.
Small pickups have been disappearing from the lineups of automakers, and even the Toyota Tacoma X-Runner will go away soon. Too bad, because this quick little pickup is fun to drive.
Jonathan Klein of Getty Images warns, “fiddling over the small stuff, you take away all the empowerment.”
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Opinion »Ignore the Debt Ceiling?Congress has the power of the purse, but the president pays the bills. Room for Debate asks: Can Obama keep borrowing, without lawmakers’ approval? |
Opinion »Op-Ed: A Deal With IranWilliam H. Luers and Thomas R. Pickering write about the lessons for President Obama in Richard M. Nixon’s diplomatic strategy. |
Opinion »Private Lives: War and Baked BeansIt seems that all my life we have been bombing someone, teaching them a lesson. Every day I recognize more deeply how violent we are. |
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