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PESHAWAR, Pakistan ?? A U.S. Embassy employee was released after being held for questioning in Pakistan on Tuesday when airport security officials discovered bullets in his luggage, police said. The American was about to to fly from the northwestern city of Peshawar to the capital Islamabad when he was taken into custody, [...]

Some moderates are suggesting a compromise in the payroll tax debate: pay for the tax cut by raising taxes on the wealthy, but exempt small business owners. That might be too complicated to work. Politicians have been searching for a defining issue to crystallize the “us versus them” game that has been going on in [...]

WASHINGTON ? Sensing a political opening, congressional Republicans are moving toward a high-stakes showdown with President Barack Obama over a plan to link fast-tracked approval of an oil pipeline to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas will help [...]

Susana Vera / Reuters Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a closer fiscal union to preserve the euro, with an overwhelming majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to forge ahead with a separate treaty, leaving the EU’s third biggest economy Britain isolated. By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer [...]