U.S. policymakers must address debt loads projected to rise later this decade to avoid a 2013 downgrade, even as the latest budget projections are “credit positive,” according to Moody’s Investors Service.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone, hat in hand, to health industry officials, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama’s landmark health-care law, two people familiar with the outreach said.
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The goal of the sale, which will take place on May 30 and 31, is to allow the Elysée Palace to refresh its wine collection without drawing on public funds.
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A former high-level Homeland Security appointee says ammonium nitrate bomb prevention program now consists of just one employee
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“…The White House still doesn’t like those cuts. And Obama’s new budget, released today, makes this clear. Although the White House doesn’t advertise this fact in the six-page budget overview it put out this morning, the new budget eliminates nearly all of the cuts that sequestration imposes on the Pentagon….”
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Obama’s budget proposal for the 2014 fiscal year, which begins October 1, calls for more military “hackers” to head off escalating cyber threats from China, Iran, Russia and other countries
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What the US government wants is an early warning for mental illness. Of course this is being linked to gun violence.
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It rejected four out of nine contested austerity measures from the budget. This will deprive the state of some 1.5bln euros in savings the government had said were necessary to meet the terms of a eurozone bailout.
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The Portuguese constitutional court has deemed parts of the country’s 2013 austerity budget to be unconstitutional. The country had agreed to widespread belt-tightening in exchange for emergency international loans.
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France’s former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac confessed on Tuesday to having hidden �600,000 in a foreign bank account for the last 20 years. He was subsequently charged with the offence of “laundering the proceeds of tax fraud”
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