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Just six months after a heady re-election, President Obama's second-term dreams have collided with second-term reality: scandals and foreign setbacks. The NYT reports.
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NEW YORK, April 30- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, considered a possible Democratic contender for the U.S. presidency in 2016, has signed a deal to write a biography that publisher HarperCollins said on Tuesday would be a "full and frank" look at his private and public life.
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As the Fed meets this week, all eyes are on Bernanke as Wall Street is buzzing that he will be leaving soon. Who will take his seat? Here's the one name that keeps coming up.
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WASHINGTON, April 29- The United States called on North Korea on Monday to immediately release on humanitarian grounds a U.S. citizen accused of trying to topple the reclusive state's government.
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LONDON, April 29- A lavish gala dinner that was a highlight of the London hedge fund industry's social calendar and counted royalty among its guests has been quietly shelved. The ARK Gala Dinner, which started in 2002, cost as much as 10,000 pounds a ticket, with entertainment over the years ranging from singers Elton John and Prince to a giant mechanical elephant.
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LONDON, April 29- A lavish gala dinner that was a highlight of the London hedge fund industry's social calendar and counted royalty among its guests has been quietly shelved. The ARK Gala Dinner, which started in 2002, cost as much as 10,000 pounds a ticket, with entertainment over the years ranging from singers Elton John and Prince to a giant mechanical elephant.
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Legislation to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes has put antitax activists like Grover Norquist in an unusual position: They're losing. The NYT reports.
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NEW YORK, April 25- It's evening in America. That is the worrying news from the latest Heartland Monitor Poll, conducted quarterly and sponsored by the insurer Allstate and National Journal.
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The mix of tax dollars and undisclosed private financing raises questions about presidential libraries, like the one dedicated Thursday to former President George W. Bush.
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WACO, Texas, April 25- President Barack Obama will assume a familiar role consoling family and friends of disaster victims on Thursday when he speaks at a Texas memorial for firefighters killed in a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant.
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday urged Congress to permanently boost U.S. funding for the International Monetary Fund, saying it is in Washington's interest to maintain its influence in the global lender.
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April 15- With the release of the president's budget, Washington has once again descended into partisan squabbling. Congress is viewed less favorably than ever before in the history of public opinion polling.
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Circuit Judge Carlos Bea wrote for a three-judge panel that Congress did not intend to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission broad power to displace the claims, citing lawmakers' "deliberate efforts to preserve traditional areas of state regulation of the natural gas industry."
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The Senate Banking Committee is set to hold a hearing on Thursday to examine whether regulators inappropriately "outsource" oversight to consultants that are paid billions of dollars by the banks. The NY Times reports.
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*Stockman, former chief for Reagan, says deficit requires harsh action. NEW YORK, April 1- Two former U.S. budget chiefs who worked for presidents from opposing political parties said on Monday that the government should reduce military spending, scale back Social Security payments and end decade-old income tax cuts to reduce the federal deficit.
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NEW YORK, March 25- A Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner took to the sky on Monday in the first of two flights aimed at showing that the plane's new lithium-ion battery system meets regulatory safety standards, a key step toward ending a two-month, worldwide grounding of the high-tech jet.
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In the second part of this CNBC Meets episode, President Clinton says his administration's greatest achievement was ensuring a prolonged period of prosperity for all Americans.
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In the second part of this CNBC Meets episode, President Clinton says his administration's greatest achievement was ensuring a prolonged period of prosperity for all Americans.
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In this episode of CNBC Meets, host Tania Bryer talks to the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, one of the world's most iconic political figures and gains exclusive access with him in his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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NEW YORK, March 15- It's not every day that a money manager gets tapped as the next ambassador to France, but investors in Marc Lasry's $12 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital could be facing that scenario.
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President Bill Clinton tells CNBC Meets that if the U.S. had intervened sooner in the Rwandan genocide, roughly 300,000 lives could have been saved.