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New Consumer Agency Eyes Bank Overdraft Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it’s looking to overhaul rules on overdraft fees. The new agency will be seeking data from banks about how they handle overdrawn accounts, and how they assess fees. The [...]

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Harry Reid Threatens Mass Recess Appointments
Last Friday, after Senate Republicans refused to allow the Senate to move forward with a vote on 90 pending nominees to federal positions, an exasperated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor [...]

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CHART: Obama’s Latest Budget Would Create 1.5 Million New Jobs In 2012
The Economic Policy Institute released an analysis today of the programs in President Obama’s newly proposed budget plan which are aimed at boosting job growth. All told, it would yield [...]

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Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether a lie is protected speech
WASHINGTON — Fake hero Xavier Alvarez lied to his fellow Californians.
He never rescued an American ambassador. He was never a Marine. Most definitely, contrary to what he told a [...]

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1 Dead, 1 Hurt In U.S. Federal Building Shooting
A federal immigration agent who shot and injured a colleague in their office in Long Beach, Calif., was killed when a third agent drew his weapon and fired, the FBI said.
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Mexican Cartels Push Meth Beyond U.S. Market
Mexican Federal Police, some of them covered head to toe in white hazardous-materials suits, paraded Jaime Herrera Herrera in front of the media in handcuffs this week. Officials say he was the methamphetamine mastermind for [...]

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Why do tea partiers flock to Santorum, given his voting record?
WASHINGTON — Supporters of the tea party movement, the grass-roots conservatives who’ve been relentless in demanding tough, lean budgets, are rallying behind Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum — but Santorum’s record [...]

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Billionaire George Soros: I Should Pay More In Taxes
paragraphPresident Obama’s most recent budget, released today, featured the “Buffett Rule,” named after and supported by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, which would require millionaires to pay a minimum 30 percent tax rate . [...]

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Women Get Closer To Combat; Many PracticallyThere
The Pentagon announced last week that the military would now allow women to serve in jobs that would bring them closer to combat. Host Rachel Martin speaks with former Army sergeant Kayla Williams about the [...]

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How (and How Not) to Jumpstart an Economy
The polarized rhetoric of the 2012 election cycle presents voters with a false choice of whether the government can create jobs or should just get out of the way. The real debate should be [...]