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WASHINGTON - The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday in hopes of assuring Christmas-week passage of the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Full Story »

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gave the nation's top bankers an earful Monday, telling them in no uncertain terms that it's time for them to start lending again to help boost the economy after being bailed out themselves by the nation's taxpayers. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration's nearly yearlong effort to engage Iran has fallen short and new sanctions are needed to press the Iranian leadership to come clean about its suspect nuclear program. Full Story »

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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iranian charges against three detained Americans are "totally unfounded" and appealed anew to authorities in Iran to release them. Full Story »

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Clashes across Pakistan's northwest have killed 16 Taliban militants and two soldiers, the army said Monday, as a top US general met with officials to discuss the battle against extremists. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo. Full Story »

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said the nation’s banks have an obligation to help accelerate the U.S. economic recovery after the government bailed them out of a crisis that was “largely of their own making.” Full Story »

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s $1 trillion health-care overhaul won’t buy corporate America relief from medical costs that more than doubled in the last decade, chief executive officers of more than a dozen U.S. companies said. Full Story »

President Barack Obama’s plan to talk tough to bankers in a meeting at the White House Monday morning lost some of its punch when the executives at several top financial institutions could not make the sit-down due to bad weather. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is meeting with the nation's top financial industry executives at the White House today. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business groups widely expect President Barack Obama to formally notify Congress as early as Monday of his intention to negotiate a regional free trade agreement with countries in the Asia Pacific. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama wants world leaders meeting in Copenhagen to seal a deal that imposes "meaningful steps" to shape the battle against global warming, a US official said Monday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Monday a U.N. resolution calling on Hezbollah to disarm must be enforced. Full Story »

The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), which would mean eliminating the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA launched Monday a new breed of satellite called WISE on a mission to orbit Earth and map the skies to find elusive cosmic objects, including potentially dangerous asteroids. Full Story »