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The House of Representatives approved a $690 billion defense budget that would limit President Obama's ability to reduce the country's nuclear arsenal and to transfer terrorism suspects.

The House of Representatives resoundingly voted to prohibit spending any tax dollars on deploying ground forces in Libya and narrowly defeated a measure to speed up a timetable for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

US senators proposed further tightening sanctions on Iran reflecting fears that companies overseas, particularly in China, are evading U.S. penalties imposed last year for doing business with Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

In a special House election Democrat Kathy Hochul won what had been a Republican seat in upstate New York, lifting Democrats' hopes for the 2012 campaign.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, whose views on fiscal conservatism and strong views on smaller government resonate with the conservative movement which swept Republicans into office in 2010, on Friday announced he is running for U.S. President in the 2012 election, saying his grass root supporters were enthusiastic, 'more so than ever.'

Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the House of Representatives has been dissolved to make way for general elections under the system of democracy.

The White House and Republicans agreed on Friday that jobs growth is not coming quickly enough despite the latest report showing that private sector jobs growth has continued to growth for the last 14 months.

Sony will begin to restore services to its Playstation Network after it took it down following an attack last month, adding perks for gamers who have been without service for half a month.

Sony will begin to restore services to its Playstation Network after it took it down following an attack resulting in the loss of personal data of nearly 80 million users around the globe.

Sony will finally speak to media tomorrow about a huge outage and security breach of its PlayStation Network, resulting in the loss of personal data of nearly 80 million users around the globe.

Ire is mounting the world over after Sony belatedly revealed its online gaming network suffered one of the largest data breaches in history, and has yet to issue a full statement regarding the mater.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - who is strongly against a budget proposal that will change the Medicare health care program for seniors to reduce costs - said Wednesday that he would test Republican senators commitment to the proposal by holding a vote.

House Speaker John Boehner said on Monday that 'there's a chance' a vote to raise the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion may not happen if President Barack Obama 'doesn't get serious' about handling the nation's fiscal problems.

Rep. Ron Paul R-TX, will announce Tuesday he is formally exploring the possibility of running for the U.S. presidency in 2012 and says Washington's leaders are not realistically trying to pay down the United States' $14.3 trillion debt.

Sen. John McCain, who visited the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday, called for the United States and every other nation to recognize the rebels fighting against forces led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi and for responsible nations to arm them.

John Ensign, Republican Senator from Nevada, announced his resignation on Thursday following investigations into a sex and corruption scandal. Here are some facts about Ensign’s political career, personal life, extramarital affair and the corruption scandal.

President Barack Obama is currently focused on reaching a deal with Republicans on lowering the nation's long term deficits, but said Wednesday that he is still urgent to make changes to the nation's immigration and energy systems.

The House of Representatives set the bar for an upcoming debate on the 2012 budget by passing a $3.5 trillion federal bill on Friday that spends $179 billion less than President Barack Obama's proposal in February.

The US House of Representatives has passed a budget plan for 2012 which seeks to reduce $6.2 trillion in spending by the government over the next decade.

Members of the House of Representatives did their part to seal Friday's last-hour deal to avert a federal government shutdown by passing legislation that will fund the federal government until the end of fiscal year 2011, September 30.

The Obama Administration is trying to balance keeping spending up in certain areas while cutting federal deficits and may be open to striking a deal with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling above its current $14.3 trillion levels.