Tuesday January 18, 2011 Updated 6:25 PM PST
Republicans pushing to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the health care debate.
President Obama on Tuesday ordered a review of federal regulations with an eye toward getting rid of those that stifle job creation and hurt economic growth, a move aimed at both soothing anger over the government's reach and mending Obama's relationship with the business community.
Robert "Sargent" Shriver, the father of former California first lady Maria Shriver, a founder of the Peace Corps and the force behind...
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Brazil's army sent 700 soldiers Monday to help establish a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off from food, water...
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His victims remember "Baby Doc" Duvalier. The long periods in hiding, friends who simply vanished, activists who went into the Fort...
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Chinese President Hu Jintaois coming to town this week, and U.S. officials say that President Obama will be taking a far more...
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak bolted from the Labor Party on Monday to form a new centrist faction in the governing coalition...
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Sarah Palin said in a television interview Monday evening that she agreed with bipartisan calls for civility in the wake of the...
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Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico and likely 2012 presidential candidate, is serious when he says he wants to end...
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6:00 PM Took the day off twitverse, and looks like plenty of CA politics news happened. C'est la guerre. Back at it Wed, thumbs willing. (KQED_CapNotes)
5:58 PM RT @IdaZL: State Auditor Finds Cal employees wasted / abused $ 400k bw Jan and June of 2010: www.capradio.org/157375 #cabudget (KQED_CapNotes)
5:52 PM #Democrats, #GOP jockey for position on #HealthCare politi.co/f5RYH9 (Politico)
Muni officials hold off on ending free parking perk
Meg Whitman resurfaces! And we are personally disinvited from the event
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Word is that Oakland's highly popular police chief, Anthony Batts, is one of...
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