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NYC, New England Brace for Snowstorms

Snow begins to fall at the start of what's predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard.

Obama Rejects Plan for More Say in Spending Cuts

President Barack Obama brushed off a Republican plan Tuesday to give him flexibility to allocate $85 billion in looming spending cuts, wanting no part of a deal that would force …

Key Points in GOP Platform Adopted in Tampa

Some key elements of the Republican platform, which is to be approved Tuesday at the party's national convention in Tampa, Fla.

South by Northeast

On the one hand, you've got your Mexican food, and on the other hand, you've got your Asian food. Difficult decision? Not when someone else prepares it, serves it and …

Parting The Curtain

Mississippi Values: It sounds innocuous, even noble; yet under the pens of Alex A. Alston Jr. and James L. Dickerson, the phrase takes on an ominous ring. Magnolia State residents …

[Lott] Look at the Numbers

The economy is growing, and jobs are being created. But don't take my word for it. Just look at the latest numbers by the Department of Commerce. Virtually every economic …

‘Well-to-Do' Discrimination

"The Help" (Putnam, 2009, $24.95) is Kathryn Stockett's fictional exposé of racial discrimination in Jackson's white upper-middle class in the 1960s. Stockett, a white Jackson native, zeroes in on the …

Obama Presses on with GOP Charm Offensive

Punctuated with the sounds of ringing phones and clinking china, President Barack Obama's new legislative diplomacy has Republicans wondering what took so long.

Lawmakers: Obama Wooing Might Break Budget Logjam

Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Barack Obama's courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle …

Committee Passes Bill to Address Sexual Assaults

With broad support from Republicans and Democrats, a House committee Wednesday approved legislation to tackle the growing problem of sexual assault in the armed forces by taking away the power …

In Picking Lew, Obama Turns a Page at Treasury

Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for treasury secretary, is a premier federal budget expert who would take the helm of the government's main agency for economic and fiscal policy …

Biden Seeks Video-Game Industry Input on Guns

Looking for broader remedies to gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden is reaching out to the video game industry for ideas.

Civil Rights and Immigration History Connected

The push for comprehensive immigration reform was heard from the speakers' podium on Saturday, when tens of thousands marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National …

Jackson Ordinance Seeks to Curb State Gun Law

City Council President Charles Tillman has introduced a gun ordinance that would ban handguns from most public places.

Deficit Cutters Look to Pentagon Budget

One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is …

GOP Counters Obama on Fiscal Cliff: Cut Social Security and Medicare

House Republicans on Monday proposed a new 10-year, $2.2 trillion blueprint to President Barack Obama that calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social …

Fiscal Cliff Talks Intense; Obama and Boehner Talk

Leading lawmakers expressed pessimism that a deal was close, despite increasing angst.

U.S. Bombers Fly Over China Air Defense Zone

Two U.S. B-52 bombers flew over disputed islands in the East China Sea during a training mission Tuesday, defying new territorial claims laid out by Beijing over the weekend, according …

[City Buzz] Think Global, View Local

AP Source: Authorities Recover Pressure Cooker Lid

Authorities investigating the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon have recovered a piece of circuit board that they believe was part of one of the explosive devices, and also found …