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Obamacare would keep running even in a government shutdown, a new congressional report suggests.


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Official: Provision on part-time employees affects less than one percent of all workers

(CNN) -- The White House is continuing to push back against a barrage of criticism and some recent bad press about the effect of President Obama's health care law on the overall economy.


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It is unclear how the additional information would be released

(CNN) -- The U.S. intelligence community plans to declassify additional information about surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, possibly as soon as Tuesday, CNN has learned.


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Obama will suggest Congress cut corporate tax rates while making jobs investments

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will offer a new proposal Tuesday that would cut corporate taxes while investing in programs that could put more Americans in well paying, full-time jobs, the White House said.


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He is accused of releasing upwards of three-quarters of a million classified documents

(CNN) -- Is Pfc. Bradley Manning an idealist who became disillusioned by what was being done in Iraq and elsewhere in the name of U.S. national interests, as the attorney for the former Army intelligence analyst has argued?


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Bus near Grand Canyon flips on side, washes downstream

(CNN) -- Severely soggy weather soaked the East Coast to the West over the weekend, stranding travelers, washing out roads and claiming two lives.


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The remarks, days after the president spoke on race and the Trayvon Martin case, came while he was on a campaign-style economic tour

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama explained why, amid a series of executive branch controversies, his renewed focus on the economy matters: it's not only about financial stability, but about equal opportunity.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- SAC Capital attorneys entered not guilty pleas to the federal criminal charges against the hedge fund at the initial hearing in the case Friday morning.


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Critics slam it as an effort to disenfranchise the poor, minority and disabled voters

(CNN) -- North Carolina lawmakers passed a measure that requires residents to present photo identification to vote, joining a handful of other states that have approved the controversial proposal.


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The FBI and security officials in Russia are discussing his case

(CNN) -- The U.S. Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to Russian authorities in a letter dated July 23.


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