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  • Ford’s Mulally Calls Japan Currency Manipulator Amid Weaker Yen

    Updated 29 minutes ago

    Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally called Japan a currency manipulator that’s giving local exporters an unfair edge as the weaker yen threatens to undermine U.S. automakers’ profits.

  • Bernanke Sees Beginning of End for Fed’s Record Easing

    Updated 5 minutes ago

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is putting investors on notice that the central bank is prepared to begin phasing out one of the most aggressive easing programs in its century-long history later this year.

  • N. Korea Seeks New Talks on Its Nuclear Program, China Says

    Updated 44 minutes ago

    North Korea is ready to return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, China said, the third time this month that Kim Jong Un’s regime has proposed new dialogue after easing off months of harsh rhetoric.

  • Obama’s Modest Goals Obscured by Conflicts on Europe Trip

    Updated 39 minutes ago

    President Barack Obama traveled to Europe with his expectations set low. He met them.

  • U.S. Human-Trafficking Report Criticizes China, Russia

    Updated 24 minutes ago

    The Obama administration has downgraded the ratings of China, Russia and Uzbekistan in an annual report on global efforts to combat modern slavery.

  • Kerry Woos Balking Karzai on Planned Afghan Peace Talks

    Updated 39 minutes ago

    The U.S. worked to sustain plans for Afghan peace talks after President Hamid Karzai balked over the American role and the Taliban’s move to open an office under the name it used when it controlled Afghanistan.

  • The Capitalist’s Case for a $15 Minimum Wage

    Updated 40 minutes ago

    The fundamental law of capitalism is that if workers have no money, businesses have no customers. That’s why the extreme, and widening, wealth gap in our economy presents not just a moral challenge, but an economic one, too. In a capitalist system, rising inequality creates a death spiral of falling demand that ultimately takes everyone down.

  • How to Talk to the Taliban

    Updated 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

    Hopes could hardly be lower for the talks between U.S. and Taliban representatives that are scheduled to begin this week in Doha. A day after announcing they would enter negotiations, the Taliban killed four coalition soldiers in a rocket attack outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, worried that the U.S.-sponsored talks will legitimize his enemies, abruptly cut off discussion over a long-term role for U.S. forces there.

  • Background Checks Faked With Lax Oversight, Watchdog Says

    Investigators charged with conducting background checks of U.S. national-security workers have falsified records and aren’t receiving adequate oversight, according to an inspector general’s testimony.

  • Obama Calls for Russia to Join U.S. in Nuclear Arms Cuts

    Updated 7 minutes ago

    President Barack Obama renewed his call to cut the world’s nuclear arsenals, saying the U.S. can ensure its security and that of its allies with one-third fewer weapons.

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