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Germany puts Greek restructuring back on table

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Germany has put a Greek restructuring back on the table, demanding in a letter to its EU partners that private bond holders make a major contribution to a looming debt relief deal for the struggling euro zone member.
U.S. President Obama speaks during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Obama gets lowest marks yet on economy; poll

President Barack Obama's handling of the economy and its growing budget has been met with Americans' disapproval, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released on Tuesday.
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Shaky economy worries GM CEO

The shaky U.S. economy, facing stubbornly high unemployment and volatile oil prices, is one of the main worries facing General Motors Co, according to the head of the largest U.S. automaker.
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White House: obstructionism sank Fed nominee

The White House said on Monday it was disappointed Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond's nomination to be a Federal Reserve governor was thwarted by partisan obstructionism and promised to name a new candidate soon.
Palin in New Hampshire

Palin, Bachmann Should Make GOP Establishment Sick: Heilemann

'The prospect of their entry into the fray should be causing queasiness for the Establishment big three of Romney, Pawlenty, and Jon Huntsman, none of whom has demonstrated even the capacity to generate faint sparks,' according to New York Magazine feature writer John Heilemann.
Rick Santorum's "Google Problem"

Rick Santorum Launches Presidential Bid, Backs GOP Health Proposal

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum launched his bid for the Republican Party's presidential nomination for the 2012 election, defending his principles despite a losing his seat in 2006, backing a Republican plan to change Medicare for future seniors to let them purchase private health insurance.
Call for vigilante for Obama administration and NATO

LulzSec keeps busy: FBI affiliate agency hacked; NATO, Obama administration threatened

In an apparent protest against the NATO and Obama administration, the LulzSec group announced the breach of FBI affiliate website, the Atlanta chapter of Infragard. The group raised claims that they have taken “complete control” over the website and has “defaced it”. They also announced that the data including passwords obtained from infragardatlanta.org would prove useful for them to hack into other FBI affiliates, since a lot of users tend to reuse their passwords even though the practice is ...
Pawlenty walks with staffers to hold a news conference after speaking at the Cato Institute in Washington

Pawlenty to outline economic plan

Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday will lay out his plan detailing how he would balance the federal budget and reshape the nation's tax code, The AP reported
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Employment growth brakes sharply in May

Employment rose far less than expected in May to record its weakest reading since September, while the jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent as high energy prices and the effects of Japan's earthquake bogged down the economy.

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