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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR President Obama on Wednesday countered Republican budget plans with what he said was a more balanced approach that relies in part on tax increases for the wealthy as well as on spending cuts. By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and LIAM STACK Prosecutors said on Wednesday they had detained former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons for 15 days to face questioning about corruption and the use of violence against protesters. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, ALAN COWELL and STEVEN LEE MYERS NATO and Arab and African ministers met with the rebels on Wednesday as diplomacy intensified. By JAMES BARRON LaShanda Armstrong, 25, and three younger children died after she drove her minivan into the river. DealBook By ERIC DASH JPMorgan Chase kicked off bank earnings season on Wednesday, reporting first quarter profit of $5.6 billion, even as problems in its mortgage lending business continued to mount. |
| Multimedia Egyptian police detain former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons; NATO, Arab and African ministers meet with Libya's rebels in Qatar; and rival military factions clash in Yemen. Opinion Amy Sullivan, left, of Time and Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason debate President Obama's budget deal. |
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DealBook By BEN PROTESS Joseph F. Skowron, who specialized in health care funds, also faces charges for conspiring to hide his role in an illicit trading scheme, prosecutors said. By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Mr. Harman made a late-in-life splash by acquiring Newsweek magazine and wedding it with a sassy Web site, The Daily Beast. By CHRISTINE HAUSER The beige book cited a "steady improvement" in manufacturing, often including hiring, and at least 10 districts noted "slight gains" in consumer spending. By JULIA WERDIGIER To keep the deal from collapsing, BP must persuade Rosneft to extend the deadline or find a compromise with shareholders in its existing Russia venture. DealBook By AZAM AHMED The former president of the Galleon Group, Richard Schutte, also said that Raj Rajaratnam's Intel trade could be explained by news about a rival, A.M.D. |
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