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Hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman is among a group of investors who agreed to pay more than $90 million for a duplex penthouse at Manhattan’s One57 condominium tower, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
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U.S. Senate Democrats today called for a two-year postponement of a scheduled increase in the interest rate charged on education loans to millions of college students.
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Allies of President Barack Obama are warning the administration that it has been too slow in responding to a cascading set of scandals and risks letting Republicans define his second term and derail his agenda.
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Senate Democrats will try again next week to advance the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, after Republicans boycotted a committee vote on her this week.
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The controversy over Benghazi doesn’t rise to the level of scandal and won’t hurt Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president, Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, said yesterday.
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The Illinois legislative effort to repair the nation’s worst-funded pension system moved closer to a showdown as the Senate passed a restructuring measure endorsed by public-employee unions.
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House Republicans, seeking to insulate themselves from criticism that they would let the U.S. default on its debt, are set to consider a measure to exempt federal payments to creditors from a borrowing-limit cap.
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The House voted to exempt federal payments to creditors from the U.S. debt limit, signaling the start of the latest debate over the nation’s borrowing authority.
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Calling themselves “Max and Dave,” the top two tax writers in Congress are starting a public- relations campaign for a simpler U.S. tax code.
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John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, picked an undercover officer as the new head of the agency’s national clandestine service, passing over a woman who had been serving as the acting chief.
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