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  • Obamas Report Income of $608,611 as Tax Rate Declines

    President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama earned $608,611 in adjusted gross income in 2012, down 23 percent from 2011 as royalties from the president’s books kept declining, tax returns showed.

  • Newtown Parents Join Biden, Bloomberg Calling for Wider Gun Laws

    U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden joined New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and some of the families who lost 26 children and adults in the December attack on a Connecticut elementary school in demanding Congress enact stricter regulations on guns.

  • How the News Media Mismanages the News

    Thirty-odd years ago, in between college and law school, I spent a summer as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal. For three weeks, I was assigned to the police beat. Each morning I’d arrive at the station house about 6 o’clock and go through the reports of the previous night’s calls, to decide which ones looked newsworthy. If I needed more information, I’d go find it. My editor upbraided me only once: when I interviewed the department spokesman rather than one of the officers.

  • Pope Francis Urges Mercy in First Angelus From St. Peter’s

    Pope Francis said mercy can change the world in his first Sunday Angelus prayer as pontiff after earlier personally greeting worshipers who had attended mass in the Vatican.

  • Biden Says Syria’s Assad ‘Hellbent’ on Power, Must Go

    Vice President Joseph Biden said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must relinquish power, as a top diplomat said the United Nations has to step into an expanding conflict that the warring parties can’t resolve.

  • Biden Urges Medvedev to Expand Economic Ties After Arms Pact

    U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that both countries should expand ties on the “economic front” after clinching a new arms reduction pact.

  • Biden Asks Congress to Approve Funds for U.S. Military Transition in Iraq

    The U.S. must spend billions of dollars this fiscal year to “reinforce Iraq’s progress” as America’s military mission transitions to a civilian-led effort, Vice President Joseph Biden said.

  • Better Background Checks Are First Step to Saner Gun Laws

    The work of Vice President Joseph Biden’s task force on revamping U.S. gun laws is complete. The next steps are up to the president and Congress.

  • U.S. Tracking Stimulus Scams in Real Time Tamps Down Fraud, Biden Says

    Some $318 billion in federal stimulus money has been paid out to build new roads and help the jobless as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act that passed in February 2009. Since then, Vice-President Joseph Biden, asked by President Barack Obama to monitor the spending splurge, has feared a massive fraud case might undermine support for the program.

  • Robert Bork, Judge Defeated in Supreme Court War, Dies at 85

    Robert Bork, the U.S. judge and legal scholar whose nomination to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan set off a battle for the judiciary that lived on long after the U.S. Senate rejected him, has died. He was 85.

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