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The Boston Marathon finish line was the scene of two large explosions Monday that killed at least two people and injured many more. A third explosion occurred at JFK Presidential Library, several miles away.
 
 
 

By Mark Trumbull, Eoin O'Carroll,
Staff writers, CSMonitor

President Obama wants to replace the sequester with a package of spending cuts and tax revenues adding up to $1.5 trillion over 10 years. But some say that's not enough savings.
 
 
By Mark Trumbull,
Staff writer, CSMonitor

(AXcess News) - President Obama has proposed a plan to avoid the much-loathed “sequester” that’s scheduled to kick in Friday, imposing significant spending cuts on most programs in the federal government.

Nearly 300 US companies filed a brief on behalf of the New York woman whose challenge of DOMA has reached the Supreme Court. Why support gay marriage? For one, it's just good business.
 
 
 
By Daniel B. Wood,
Staff writer, CSMonitor

Sen. Marco Rubio, seen as being on the Republican presidential short list in 2016, delivered a foreign policy speech Wednesday that included a lot of common ground with President Obama.
 
 
 
By Howard LaFranchi,
Staff writer, CSMonitor

(AXcess News) Washington - Bullets, though not the weapons firing them, is what Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida says he would advocate providing Syria's rebels.

The day after Obama's inauguration, Boehner accused him of trying to 'annihilate' the Republicans. Indeed, the party's struggles since have only grown. But weakening the GOP may not be all Obama wants.
 
 
 
By Linda Feldmann,
Staff writer, CSMonitor

(AXcess News) Washington - There's no doubt about it, things aren't going well for the Republicans.

True, $85 billion in spending cuts kick in on March 1, but they won't be widely felt for several weeks. Meanwhile, funding for government operations expires March 27. The two fiscal issues could be rolled into one, but a top GOP appropriator sees that as a recipe for disaster.
 
 
 
By David Grant,
Staff writer, CSMonitor

The Rev. Al Sharpton, left, speaks to protesters outside the Supreme Court alongside The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday. The NAACP and other civil rights groups fear the repeal of Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act would undo decades of racial inclusion measures at the polls.
 
 
 
By Ian Kullgren,
SHFWire Reporter

Expert offers three tips for retirement for Baby Boomers, noting how the recession has changed retirement planning.
 
 
 
(AXcess News) - The economy may be recovering, but some of the changes wrought by the Great Recession may be long-lasting. Anyone planning for retirement, no matter what their age, needs to take those changes into account, says financial advisor Philip Rousseaux, a member of the esteemed Million Dollar Round Table association's exclusive Top of the Table forum for the world's most successful financial services professionals.

Christopher Jordan Dorner's 11-page Facebook manifesto warns of more killing unless his charge of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department is acknowledged to have been correct.

By Brad Knickerbocker,

Staff writer, CSMonitor

(AXcess News) - Not since "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto in 1995 has a document generated as much fearful fascination as alleged Los Angeles cop-killer Christopher Jordan Dorner's written ramblings.

All along the Northeast Corridor the Blizzard of 2013 is making travel difficult, if not impossible. Trains and flights are being cancelled, subways ceasing operations, and motorists ordered off the roads.

By Husna Haq,

Correspondent, CSMonitor