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Politico: President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promising a climactic clash with Wall Street, but there’s a complication in their battle plan: The Democratic Party is closer to corporate America — and to Wall Street in particular — than many Democrats would care to admit. Former White House counsel Greg Craig has just signed [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days. Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – The United States has ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear program in the short term, a top Defense Department official said on Wednesday. Instead, the US will focus on negotiations with Teheran and continue its aggressive pursuit of United Nations sanctions against the Islamic regime. “Military force is an option [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) – As Congress debates sweeping legislation aimed at guarding against another financial meltdown, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has become Wall Street’s spokesman and defender amid a chorus of populist voices. With President Barack Obama set to visit New York to push for passing financial reform, the billionaire mayor, who got his start on [...]

KPHO: PHOENIX — The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state’s ballot when he runs for reelection. The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to a separate bill. The measure still faces a formal [...]

The Hill: Democrats are eyeing the “fair tax” as a wedge issue in the 2010 elections, hoping to force Republican candidates across the country to take a stand on the conservative proposal. The so-called fair tax — which would replace the current income tax system with a 23 percent national sales tax — has been [...]

Miami Herald: Federal law enforcement agencies have launched a criminal investigation into the use of American Express cards issued by the Republican Party of Florida to elected officials and staff, according to sources familiar with the probe. The U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are all involved in the [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – The Associated Press has learned that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein will testify before a Senate panel next week as his company faces civil fraud charges. Blankfein will answer questions before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter has told The AP. [...]

The Washington Times: Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon’s first report to Congress on Tehran’s military. The report on Iranian military power provides new details on the group known formally [...]