Posts Tagged ‘federal’
Romney paid $3M in federal income tax in 2010 (AP)
AP – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments. Those earnings, $21.7 million, put him among the wealthiest of American taxpayers.
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Optimism growing on deal to avoid federal shutdown (AP)
AP – The endgame at hand, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders expressed optimism Thursday at prospects for swift compromise to extend Social Security tax cuts, keep long-term jobless benefits flowing and avoid a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday.
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Report: half of schools fail federal standards (AP)
AP – Nearly half of America’s public schools didn’t meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.
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House says no to mandating balanced federal budget (AP)
AP – Rejecting the idea Congress can’t control its spending impulses, the House turned back a Republican proposal Friday to amend the Constitution to dam the rising flood of federal red ink. Democrats — and a few GOP lawmakers — said damage from the balanced-budget mandate would outweigh any benefits.
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Sister of “Precious” director Lee Daniels sentenced to probation for federal drug possession charge
THE SISTER of “Precious” director Lee Daniels was sentenced Friday to probation for possession of the love drug Ecstasy.
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GOP hopefuls would limit federal role in education (AP)
AP – When it comes to education, the Republican field of presidential candidates has a unified stance: Get the federal government out of schools. How they’d do that varies.
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Lupica: Federal investigation inevitable at PSU
A very smart New York defense and civil rights lawyer named Tom Harvey was in the Daily News talking about how he believed the federal government would eventually need to sort things out at Penn State.
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