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Reuters - Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the Democrats from fulfilling a campaign promise to increase the federal minimum wage, demanding that the pay hike include tax relief for small business.

CQPolitics.com - The “exploring” is over for two Republicans, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, who now are official candidates for their party’s presidential nomination.

As the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby goes on, we are learning more and more about special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation, which was prompted by the leak that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent.

Reuters - Iran has begun producing nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant, a confidential U.N. atomic watchdog document said on Wednesday, ratcheting up its defiance of the United Nations.