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President Barack Obama gave his annual year-end news conference Friday before leaving for vacation in Hawaii. Citing progress on the economy, President Barack Obama said at his annual year-end news conference Friday that 2014 "can be a breakthrough year…

It is apparently safe to use the word "compromise" again. Vladimir Putin is granting pardons to his enemies (it took a decade, but still). Nine U.S. senators this week dared to stray from the Republican fold to endorse a modest…

The bipartisan budget plan passed by Congress will avert another government shutdown, give the Pentagon some relief from automatic spending cuts and restore billions of dollars to domestic programs. Gwen Ifill talks to Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post about…

In Putin's annual press conference, the Russian president said NSA surveillance is necessary but must have limits. He also criticized Western sanction on Iran as "counter-productive", denied Russia has mined Snowden for information, and reinforced Russia's commitment to supporting…