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U.S. Senate rightly addresses online sales tax disparity

U.S. Senate rightly addresses online sales tax disparity

Commentary: How about equal rights and protections for all?

If passed by the House of Representatives, this will be the third renewal of the act that was originally passed in 1994 aimed at preventing and alleviating domestic violence.

Commentary: Geraldo Rivera and the sins of Fox News

The spectacle of TV personality Geraldo Rivera using his soapbox with Fox News to test-market a possible run for the U.S. Senate has, not surprisingly, caused some real journalists to cough up...

Ex-Navy SEAL announces run for Mass. Senate seat

Marisa DeFranco, a Democrat who ran in last year's Senate race but failed to make the ballot, is also considering a run.

Iowa Democrat Braley announces 2014 US Senate bid

Braley had already said he was weighing a run, and he met last week in Washington with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and chairmen of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

House Republicans hope short-term deal on debt delays another fight with Obama

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, hoping to avert another politically costly showdown with President Barack Obama over fiscal issues, plan a vote next week on increasing the debt...

House GOP leaders offer vote on small hike for debt ceiling

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, hoping to avert another politically costly showdown with President Barack Obama over fiscal issues, plan a vote next week on increasing the debt...

Reaction to $50.5 billion in Superstorm Sandy aid

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Puerto Rico party pushes for part-time legislature

Leaders of the party that recently won control of Puerto Rico's legislature want put the House of Representatives on part-time status for the first time in nearly two decades.

On new Congress' 1st day, clouds amid the sunshine

Republican John Boehner narrowly won re-election Thursday as the speaker of the House of Representatives as the 113th Congress convened in an atmosphere of unusual uncertainty and turmoil.

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FBI ID's Benghazi suspects, but no arrests yet

The officials say they have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as...

Apple's Cook faces Senate questions on taxes

Under U.S. law, a company is a tax resident of the country in which it was established.

How Apple slices its U.S. tax bill

"It's the loopholes in the U.S. tax laws that makes this all possible.

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Apple publishes execs' opening statements from US Senate testimony

Apple publishes execs' opening statements from US Senate testimony

Apple publishes execs' opening statements from US Senate testimony

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Ireland rejects blame for Apple's low tax rate

It said it exploited a difference between Irish and U.S. tax residency rules.

Lawmakers grill Apple's Tim Cook, other executives on taxes

Bullock reiterated that Apple Inc. has paid U.S. taxes.

Senators reach deal to ease high tech rules in U.S. immigration bill

The provisions still need to be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the entire bill...