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President Obama tells NPR that despite strong opposition from fellow Democrats, the deal he negotiated with Republicans will win approval. "Nobody -- Democrat or Republican -- wants to see people's paychecks smaller on Jan. 1 because Congress didn't act," he says.

Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Philip Reeves about the absence of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo at Friday's Nobel ceremony in Oslo. Xiaobo is currently serving an eleven-year prison sentence in China.

California’s population increased a tiny bit compared to last year according to a new report from the Department of Finance.

Construction of the Sunrise Powerlink Project began in September. Three months since, its groundbreaking attracts protesters and local residents opposing it.

The Obama administration is taking $1.2 billion in high-speed rail money away from Ohio and Wisconsin and awarding it to 12 other states, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday.

With the measure stalled in the Senate and unlikely to come up for a vote, Latino scholars and organizers weigh in on the implications of its likely failure to pass Congress.

A strong majority of Americans say they support a combination of spending cuts and tax increases to cut the budget deficit -- but they falter when asked if they support specific ideas, like raising the national gasoline tax. That's according to a poll by the Pew Research Center.

The 57-40 test vote fell three votes short of the 60 needed to advance and ends months of political wrangling on the bill. Congressional action on the repeal provision appears unlikely in the near future. The 1993 law bans gay troops from publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation.

Construction officially began today on a 117-mile transmission line that will carry electricity from the Imperial Valley to San Diego, while environmentalists vowed to continue their efforts to stop the project.

House Democrats defied President Obama on Thursday, shooting down a deal between the White House and Republicans lawmakers to renew the Bush-era tax cuts in exchange for an extension of unemployment benefits.