Yemen: Al-Qaida's al-Awlaki killed in airstrike

The Yemeni government has released an executive statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed.

The government says al-Awlaki was embattled and killed 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the town of Khashef in the Province of al-Jawf the town is located 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the capital Sanaa the statement says the act was launched on Friday around 9:55 a.m. It gave no other details.

If the death is confirmed, al-Awlaki would be the nearly everyone prominent al-Qaida figure to be killed since Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in May.

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Election-year ruling looms for health overhaul

President Barack Obama's landmark health care renovate appears headed for a Supreme Court ruling as the presidential election season hits full stride in the coming year the health care law distressing virtually every American is sure to figure highly in President Barack Obama's campaign for re-election republican contenders are already assail it in virtually every debate and speech.

The administration on Wednesday formally appeal a ruling by the federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the law's core requirement that Americans buy health insurance or pay a punishment beginning in 2014 the administration said the appeal court decision declare the law's central provision unauthorized was "fundamentally flawed."

At the same time, however, the winners in that appellate case, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, also asked for high court appraisal Wednesday, saying the entire law, and not just the individual insurance permission should be struck down the Supreme Court almost forever weighs in when a lower court has struck down all or part of a federal law, to say nil of one that aims to extend insurance coverage to additional than 30 million Americans.

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Shutdown averted, but deep differences linger

It's the third time this year a government budget predicament has been averted just in the nick of time and the public seem plain fed up with the hysterically partisanship that led to the nerve-racking close calls.

Rising public disgust turns up in poll after poll showing Congress' approval ratings contain sunk far lower than those of President Barack Obama, whose own numbers have been weighed down by the teetering economy and dour employment numbers yet the political grandstand is likely to carry on even grow.

Since at the heart of every major standoff this year is a deep philosophical disagreement between the parties on the dimension and role of government it encompasses sharp disagreements on spending cuts and taxes, and on whether deficit decrease or more spending to prod a flailing recovery is a higher priority and these are arguments sure to resound more loudly.

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Congress dodges shutdown after disaster aid fight

A bitterly divided and poll-battered Congress has almost worked its way out of a nasty fight over disaster aid, but only by abruptly abandoning efforts to immediately refill approximately empty federal disaster relief accounts.

Instead, with the administration assuring lawmakers that the direct infusion of $1 billion in disaster money wasn't needed to avoid a cutoff this week, Senate leaders stimulated quickly Monday to jettison the money from a pending Democratic measure and in its place pass bare-bones legislation to avert a government shutdown at week's end.

That measure, approved by the Senate on a 79-12 vote, would keep the government running until mid-November the House appears likely to endorse that measure next week when it proceeds from a weeklong recess in the meantime, a one-week stopgap gauge needed to avoid a government shutdown at midnight Friday appears likely to be adopt in a sparsely attended session Thursday the weeklong gauge would provide a $2.7 billion infusion of disaster money that would make sure federal help continue to flow to wounded of Hurricane Irene and other recent disasters.

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Obama sells jobs plan in Silicon Valley

President Barack Obama is on the road selling his jobs plan and his re-election hope to plugged-in networkers in Silicon Valley and about the country.

He was to appear Monday at a town hall-style event hosted by the career-focused social networking site LinkedIn to pitch his nearly $450 billion jobs proposal as he travels from end to end California scooping up campaign cash.

The town hall, the White House's latest effort to meld old-school campaigning with new media capabilities, will allow Obama to take questions from LinkedIn users online as well as a live spectators at the Computer History Museum close to the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

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AP IMPACT: Hospitals face drug price-gouging

A severe drug shortage is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medication from secondary supplier at huge markups since they can't get them any other way.

An Associated Press review of industry reports and interviews with almost two dozen experts found at least 15 deaths in the past 15 months blamed on the shortages, either since the right drug wasn't available or because of dosing errors or other troubles in administering or preparing alternative medications.

The shortages, mainly involving widely-used generic inject drugs that ordinarily are cheap, have been delaying surgeries and cancer treatments, leaving patients in redundant pain and forcing hospitals to give less efficient treatments that's resulted in complications and longer hospital stays.

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Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice

Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and confirmed one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail just a few feet away after a glass window, MacPhail's son and brother watch in silence.

Outside the prison, a crowd of extra than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles they represent hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away.

"I am innocent," Davis said moments earlier than he was executed Wednesday night "All I can ask is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can lastly see the truth i ask my family and friends to carry on to fight this fight."

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Obama making final push to blunt Palestinian bid

Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will openly push for the Palestinians to fall a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

Obama will follow up his speech with individual meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he seeks to coax both parties back to direct peace talks.

At the same time, U.S. officials are conceding that they most likely cannot prevent Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from going forward with a request to the U.N. Security Council for full Palestinian membership.

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Tax the rich, Obama says; class warfare, says GOP

Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a aggressive President Barack Obama on Monday demand that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion he promise to veto any effort by congressional Republicans to cut Medicare reimbursement for the elderly without raising taxes as well.

"This is not class warfare it's math," Obama declared, anticipate Republican criticism, which was quick in coming "Class conflict isn't leadership," House Speaker John Boehner said, in Cincinnati.

Obama's speech marked a new, challenging stance toward Republicans after months of cooperation that many Democrats complain produced too many concessions even as the plan stands little possibility of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support.

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Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue

President Barack Obama's proposal to decrease long-term deficits with $1.5 trillion in new taxes is less an opening bid in a compromise than it is an opening salvo in a struggle to draw sharp contrasts with congressional Republicans.

Obama's proposal is aimed predominantly at the wealthy and come just days after House Speaker John Boehner ruled out tax increases to lesser deficits it also comes amid a clamor in his own Democratic Party for Obama to take a tougher stance next to Republicans and while the plan stands little chance of transient Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believe the public can support.

The core of the president's plan totals just more than $2 trillion in deficit decrease over 10 years it combine the new taxes with $580 billion in cuts to compulsory benefit programs, as well as $248 billion from Medicare.

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White House worried about Solyndra default

White House officials discussed the political ramifications of a likely default by a troubled solar energy company that received more than $500 million in federal loans, recently released emails show.

Emails released Thursday night show that Obama administration confidentially worried about the effect of a default by Solyndra Inc on the president's re-election campaign.

"The optics of a Solyndra default will be bad," an representative from the Office of Management and Budget wrote in a Jan 31 email to a senior OMB official, "The timing will possible coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up."

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House probing $528M loan to failed solar company

House Republicans questioned Wednesday whether the White House hurried approval of a half-billion-dollar loan guarantee for a now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer just the once cited as the kind of renewable energy company worthy of federal stimulus money.

Solyndra Inc. was a major presence in Washington and spends millions of dollars on lobby there, particularly about the Energy Department's loan assurance program and its executive raised thousands of dollars for Obama and Democrats in Congress.

The collapse of the Fremont, Calif.-based company once touted by President Barack Obama ultimately left taxpayers on the fastener for $528 million, raising questions if the loan was hurried to accommodate a company event in September 2009 that featured Vice President Joe Biden.

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Obama: Congress has no reason to wait on jobs bill

Imploring Congress to follow his lead, President Barack Obama on Tuesday lobbied lawmakers to accept his nearly $450 billion jobs plan, promising it would help workers in the construction industry and reconstruct schools in crumbling condition.

From a high school in the critical electoral state of Ohio, Obama deliver a burning speech to plug his plan the outdoor audience was receptive to the point of adopting his desist and chanting it back to him, shouting "Pass this bill!"

The event had the feel of an Obama re-election event, right down to the music that played as Obama came out to speak, suit coat off and sleeves rolled up on a sunny day he modified his latest pitch to how his proposed legislation would help education, built approximately a $25 billion spending initiative for school renovations.

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Perry assailed by GOP rivals, defends his record

Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov Rick Perry soften his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a crackling presidential campaign argue Monday night he fended off assaults on his record creating jobs and require the vaccination of schoolgirls beside a cancer-causing sexually transmitted virus.

Across a fractious two-hour argue before a boisterous tea party crowd, the front-runner in opinion polls gave little ground and frequently jabbed back, mainly at his chief rival, former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney.

But the criticism of Perry kept imminent from Romney on Social Security, from Texas Rep. Ron Paul saying the governor have raised taxes, from Rep Michele Bachmann and former Sen Rick Santorum assailing his executive order to need Texas schoolgirls to get a STD vaccine and more.

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Obamas place wreathe at Flight 93 memorial

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, located a wreath at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Sunday, arriving at the spot to pay respects to the 40 passengers and crew who died a decade ago Sunday.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, visit the Wall of Names each of the 40 marble slabs is adorned with the name of someone killed in the hurtle of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

Some 3,000 people, including thousands of normal citizens, were gathered at the Flight 93 memorial as Obama walked to a security barricade to shake hands others take his photo and sections of the multitude chanted "USA! USA!"

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Obama tells Congress to cut taxes in his jobs plan

Attacking a deepening jobs crisis, President Barack Obama challenged a reluctant Congress Thursday night to immediately pass a larger-than-expected $450 billion plan to "jolt an economy that has stalled," He urged lawmakers to hack Social Security taxes for tens of millions of Americans and for approximately every business to encourage hiring.

"Stop the political circus," an animated Obama told a joint meeting of Congress in a nationally televised speech over and more than he implored lawmakers to "pass this jobs bill."Open to discussion but making no promises, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said Obama's ideas would be careful but the president should give heed to Republicans' as well, "It's my hope that we can work together," he said.

In announcing a plan heavy on the tax cuts that Republicans traditionally love, Obama sought to achieve multiple goals: offer a plan that could really get through a deeply divided Congress, speed hiring in a nation where 14 million are out of work, shore up public assurance in his leadership and put Republicans on the mark to take action.

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Obama's best jobs plan might be status quo

First, do no harm Economists say the mainly important part of the jobs plan President Barack Obama will unveil Thursday night is the renewal of two measures previously in place a cut in Social Security taxes and emergency aid for the without a job his new proposals, like spending more for transportation projects and cutting taxes for company that hire the unemployed, probably wouldn't add many jobs, they say not soon, anyway.

"These are not bold, new, big programs," says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist with IHS Global Insight, "You put the whole thing together, it's going to be pretty small, "The job market needs big help in August, the economy generate zero job growth and the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, a level more typical for a depression than for a recovery in its third year.

For Obama, who also faces sinking endorsement ratings as he goes before a joint session of Congress and on national TV, the options are limited congress have to approve any new measures, and congressional Republicans be against new spending, "Anything that would be of a big enough size to in fact help the labor market is going to have trouble getting through Congress," says Michael Hanson, leading economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, "and anything that can get during Congress will be too small to be much help."

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Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs

The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is predictable to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and centralized spending Thursday night to get Americans working again, Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise through him on jobs but also assailed his plans in progress of his prime time speech.

In effect, Obama will be hitting cleanup on a condensed holiday week, with Republican White House contender Mitt Romney release his jobs proposals on Tuesday and front-running Texas Gov. Rick Perry hoping toward join his presidential rivals Wednesday evening on a nationally televised debate point for the first time.

Lawmakers began returning to the Capitol to tackle legislation on jobs and centralized deficits in an unforgiving political season spiced by the 2012 presidential crusade adding to the mix a bipartisan congressional committee is slated to grasp its first public meeting on Thursday as it embarks on a quest for deficit cuts of $1.2 trillion or more above a decade if there is no agreement, automatic spending cuts will take effect, a view that lawmakers in both parties have said they would like to avoid.

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Obama says GOP must back US first, create jobs

President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day gathering to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country's interests higher than all else and vote to create jobs and put the financial system back on a path toward growth, "Show us what you've got," he said.

In a partial preview of the jobs talking he's delivering to Congress Thursday night, Obama said roads and bridges nationwide need rebuilding and additional than 1 million unemployed construction workers are itching to "get dirty" assembly the repairs he portrayed Congress as an obstacle to getting that work done.

I'm going to propose ways to put America back to work so as to both parties can agree to, because I still believe both parties be able to work together to solve our problems," Obama said at an annual Labor Day rally sponsor by the Detroit-area AFL-CIO, "Given the urgency of this moment, given the hardship that a lot of people are facing, folks have got to get together. But we're not going to wait for them.”

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Libya rebels: talks for loyalist town have failed

Negotiations over the surrender of one of Moammar Gadhafi's residual strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels are waiting for the green light to launch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid, a spokesman said.

Rebel negotiator Abdullah Kanshil said the talks had busted down after Moussa Ibrahim, Gadhafi's chief spokesman and a top aide, had insist the rebels put down their weapons before entering the town, some 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli.

Rebel forces control most of the oil-rich North African nation and are previously setting up a new government, but Gadhafi and his staunchest allies stay on the run and enjoy support in several central and southern areas, as well as Bani Walid and the fugitive leader's hometown of Sirte.

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Feds sue big banks over sales of risky investments

The government on Friday sued 17 financial firms, as well as the largest U.S. banks, for selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac billions of dollars appeal of mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic when the housing market collapsed.

Among those targeted with the lawsuits were Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JP Morgan Chase & Co., and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Large European banks as well as The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank and Credit Suisse were also sued.

The lawsuits were filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency it oversees Fannie and Freddie, the two agencies so as to buy mortgages loans and mortgage securities issued by the lenders, The total price tag for the mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie and Freddie through the firms named in the lawsuits: $196 billion.

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Gadhafi, in hiding, vows no surrender in Libya

In a fiery broadcast starting hiding, Moammar Gadhafi warned Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a illustrate of defiance hours after rebels comprehensive a deadline for the surrender of the fugitive leader's hometown.

The rebels, who have been moving troops to remaining ,Gadhafi bastions across Libya had shifted the deadline intended for the town of Sirte in hopes of avoiding the bloodshed that met their attack on Tripoli.

"We want to save our fighters and not lose a only one in battles with Gadhafi's forces," said Mohammed al-Rajali, a spokesman intended for the rebel leadership in the eastern city of Benghazi, "In the end, we will get Sirte, even if we include to cut water and electricity" and let NATO pound it with airstrikes.

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