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A federal appeals court in Virginia has dismissed two lawsuits that had claimed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was unconstitutional.

Oklahoma doles out hundreds of millions of dollars each year to companies in the form of tax credits and other incentives with little oversight or transparency, and there's no way of knowing exactly how much it's costing the state, a lawmaker complained Wednesday during a task force meeting.

Republicans and Democrats on the special supercommittee warned of a financial crisis threatening future generations as the congressional debt reduction panel kicked off its work Thursday with an imperative to slash the deficit and lift the sluggish economy.

The GOP candidates are ganging up on Mitt Romney over his health care plan in Massachusetts.

Facing a frustrated public and a skeptical Congress, President Barack Obama will pitch at least $300 billion in jobs proposals aimed at getting Americans back to work quickly and forcing Republicans to take a share of the responsibility for solving the country's economic woes.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week, evidence that the job market isn't improving.

America's sickly economy can be healed with jobs, jobs and more jobs. On that, everyone agrees. Figuring out how to produce them is what is stumping everyone.

A look at the ideas taking shape at the White House to spur job growth and the arguments on why they will or won't work.