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  • Democratic leader Harry Reid says Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown, now in its 16th day.
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  • Congressional leaders working on deal to try and avoid default
  • Senate leaders took command of efforts to avert a Treasury default and end the partial government shutdown.
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  • Eyewitness News Anchor Diana Williams sat down with President Obama to talk about everything from the shutdown to Obama's favorite part of the job.
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  • The Senate's top two leaders both expressed optimism Monday that they were closing in on an agreement to prevent a national financial default and reopen the government after a two-week partial shutdown.
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  • Using overnight hours this weekend to debug the system, the Health and Human Service Department hopes to fix the technological problems that overwhelmed the launch of new health insurance markets.
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  • Overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for health insurance under the nation's historic health care overhaul.
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  • Deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus on Wednesday and rival rebel factions battled each other in northern Syria as international chemical weapons inspectors began to secure the sites where they will work.
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  • A Senate panel has approved the nomination of Caroline Kennedy to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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  • What you need to know about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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  • President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting at a time that the three-decade estrangement between the United States and Iran may be nearing an end.
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  • President Barack Obama is promoting the benefits of his health care law before new insurance exchanges open for business next week.
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  • Syrian President Bashar Assad says he does not discount the possibility of a U.S. military attack on his country.
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  • Filibuster or no, Sen. Ted Cruz' marathon speech on the Senate floor made one point: Obamacare had to go.
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  • The Obama administration is unveiling premiums and plan choices for 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead to cover uninsured residents.
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  • President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton took to the same stage Tuesday to promote the new health care law that Obama championed after Clinton's own efforts to reform health care years earlier fell flat.
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  • President Barack Obama memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting as patriots but also individuals - one with a talent for fixing cars, another who coached softball and yet another who loved hockey and her cats.
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  • President Obama urged the public to pressure Congress to stop undermining his health care law through measures that would threaten a government shutdown or a default on the government's debts.
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  • A roadside bomb struck a bus in Syria's central province on Thursday, killing 19 people, a local government official said.
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  • Republican Sen. John McCain is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of corruption, repression and self-serving rule in an opinion piece for Pravda that answers the Russian leader's broadside published last week in an American newspaper.
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  • President Barack Obama, facing a budget showdown with Congress, called on some of the nation's top corporate executives Wednesday to use their influence with Congress to avoid a potentially damaging confrontation over the nation's debt ceiling.
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  • For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a year of his presidency is likely to end without him toasting an ally at a glitzy White House state dinner.
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  • Russia insisted that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's chemical weapons not allow the use of force.
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  • Since President Obama took office in 2009, there have been 19 shootings - not including the one at the Navy Yard - that have killed at least five people.
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  • U.N. inspectors reported that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from where Syria's military has bases.
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  • President Barack Obama is mourning what he called "yet another mass shooting" in the United States that he says took the life of American patriots.
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  • President Barack Obama is seeking credit for an economic turnaround, using the fifth anniversary of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank to highlight signs of recovery and to warn against potentially market-rattling fights over the federal budget and the nation's debt ceiling.
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  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday sent a strong warning to Syria, saying "the threat of force is real" if it does not carry out an internationally brokered agreement to hand over its chemical weapons.
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  • A diplomatic breakthrough Saturday on securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile averted the threat of U.S. military action for the moment and could swing momentum toward ending a horrific civil war.
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  • Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he believes there will be "an overwhelming report" that chemical weapons were used.
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  • Kerry opened talks with Russia on Syria's chemical weapons by bluntly rejecting a Syrian pledge to begin a "standard process".
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  • The White House tried to pin the success or failure of a diplomatic option to secure Syria's chemical weapons on Russia.
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  • President Barack Obama said in a nationally televised address Tuesday night that recent diplomatic steps offer "the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons" inside Syria without the use of force, but he also insisted the U.S. military will keep the pressure on President Bashar Assad "and be ready to respond" if other measures fail.
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  • Battling stiff resistance in Congress, President Barack Obama conceded Monday night he might lose his fight for congressional support of a military strike against Syria, and declined to say what he would do if lawmakers reject his call to back retaliation for a chemical weapons attack last month.
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  • The White House asserted Sunday that a "common-sense test" dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response.
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  • A small crowd of protesters gathered in Times Square Saturday to condemn possible U.S. military action in Syria.
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  • Obama to address nation on Syria
  • President Barack Obama acknowledged deep divisions at home and abroad on Friday over his call for military action in Syria - and conceded the possibility he'll fail to sway the American public. He refused to say whether he would act without passage of congressional authorization for a strike in response to chemical weapons use.
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  • The State Department is ordering nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria.
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  • Syria top issue as Obama and Putin meet in Russia
  • President Barack Obama says he had a "candid and constructive conversation" with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Syria.
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  • Obama in Russia, pushing for action on Syria
  • President Barack Obama pressed skeptical lawmakers to give him the authority to use U.S. military force against Syria during his overseas trip while the administration struggled to rally international support for intervention in an intractable civil war.
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  • Obama in Russia, pushing for action on Syria
  • Syrian government troops battled al-Qaida-linked rebels over a regime-held Christian village in western Syria for the second day Thursday, as world leaders gathered in Russia for an economic summit expected to be overshadowed by the prospect of U.S.-led strikes against the Damascus regime.
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  • Senate panel votes to authorize force in Syria
  • A Senate panel has voted to give President Barack Obama the authority to use military force against Syria in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack.
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  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearings on Syria
  • President Barack Obama gained ground Tuesday in his drive for congressional backing of a military strike against Syria.
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  • N.J. Burkett is live in Time Square with more
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  • violence continues in egypt
  • ABC's Reena Ninnan tells us the latest
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  • ABC News Investigative reporter Brian Ross joins Liz and David to discuss the latest
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  • President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City.
  • Anthony Johnson previews the president's visit to the Garden State
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  • President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City.
  • President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie promoted the Jersey Shore's summer tourism economy Tuesday while praising the federal government's role in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
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  • President Obama joined Gov. Chris Christie in a tour of Jersey Shore communities, seven months after Superstorm Sandy.
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  • Devin Dwyer has the latest on IRS targeting of conservative groups
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  • President Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash.
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