WASHINGTON — An election-year tax faceoff between Democrats and Republicans in the GOP-controlled House is heading toward a predictable outcome Wednesday. Republicans are poised to pass a bill to renew a full slate of Bush-era tax cuts for every working ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, eager to shift election-year attention away from the nation’s lackluster jobs market, called on Congress Monday to extend tax cuts for only low and middle income earners while allowing taxes to increase for families that ...

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WASHINGTON — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is planning to attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The mayor will be Sen. Ben Cardin’s guest in the House of Representatives chamber at the Capitol on Tuesday night. Obama is ...

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WASHINGTON — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a ...

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NEW YORK — The parent of Dunkin’ Donuts plans to raise as much as $461 million when it takes the company public, up from the $400 million it originally estimated. Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc., which runs Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, ...

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Third-quarter earnings reports from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Saks Fifth Avenue show the far different streets their customers are living on. Wal-Mart’s third-quarter sales in the U.S. got squeezed as its financially strapped customers dealt with dire economic straits. Saks’ ...

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