WASHINGTON (AP) -- A threatened government shutdown imminent, House Republicans scaled back their demands to delay the nation's health care law Monday night as the price for essential federal funding, ...

Republican unity showed unmistakable signs of fraying Monday as the Senate swatted aside the latest tea party-driven demand to delay the nation's health care overhaul in exchange for averting a ...

Sinn Féin's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness has said his party aims to be in government on both sides of the Border and claimed… Sinn Féin's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness has said his party ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A threatened government shutdown only hours away, House Republicans scaled back their demands for delays in the nation's health care overhaul Monday night as the price for essential ...

House Republicans countered with a second despite unmistakable signs their unity was fraying — and Senate Democrats promptly rejected it, as well. That left the next move up to Speaker John Boehner ...

WASHINGTON — Republican unity showed unmistakable signs of fraying Monday as the Senate swatted aside the latest tea party-driven demand to delay the nation’s health care overhaul in exchange for ...

WASHINGTON — Their unity fraying, House Republicans bent but did not blink Monday in their demand for changes to the nation’s health care overhaul as the price for preventing the first partial ...

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