National budgets

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world's largest humanitarian crisis in 70 years has been declared in three African countries on the brink of famine,...

With each scare tactic employed by those who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, I not only become more and more furious, but equally...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn't supposed to be like this for Republicans. A month into their control of both chambers of Congress, they are...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shuffling his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama plans to nominate Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan to be budget director and is considering...

WASHINGTON (AP) --President Barack Obama's nominee for health secretary is winning GOP praise as she makes her first appearance before a Senate committee. Sylvia Mathews...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama returns to Washington this weekend eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the waning days...

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) PITTSBURGH (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said new spending cuts to federally funded medical research will take effect in January if Congress does not stop them, and he blamed an earlier round of funding cuts for massive job losses in Pennsylvania.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, right, laughs as he visits a classroom at Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, to highlight the importance of education in providing skills for American workers in a global economy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) by Josh LedermanAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regrouping with Democrats after a bitter budget fight, President Barack Obama on Friday cast the recent spending-and-debt standoff with Congress as "a symptom of a larger challenge" but one offering Democrats the chance to show voters the virtues of their vision for government ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.

PREDICTIONS—PNC VP and Market Analyst Mekael Teshome tells the African American Chamber of Commerce’s PowerBreakfast audience that he sees modest but positive economic growth ahead. (Photo by Christian Morrow) As an economist and assistant vice president at PNC, Mekael Teshome’s specialty is risk analysis. So it wasn’t unexpected that the economic forecast for the coming year he presented at the African American Chamber of Commerce’s October 18 PowerBreakfast was relatively conservative, but positive.

BACK IN BUSINESS--President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Oct. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) by Andrew TaylorAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The government unlocked its doors Thursday after 16 days, with President Barack Obama saluting the resolution of Congress' bitter standoff but lambasting Republicans for the partial shutdown that he said had damaged the U.S. economy and America's credibility around the world.