الاثنين، 19 سبتمبر 2011

Afternoon Update: Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases

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Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases

By HELENE COOPER

President Obama called for Congress to adopt his plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion over the next decade, calling for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations.

News Analysis

In Deficit Plan, Obama Drops Compromise for Confrontation

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

Rather than trying to identify common ground, the president is entering negotiations in the same kind of tough position that Republicans adopted during the debt-ceiling debate.

Fighting Erupts for Second Day in Yemeni Capital

By LAURA KASINOF

After the worst violence in the capital since March, fierce fighting spilled into a second day on Monday as government security forces battled soldiers who have joined anti-government protesters.

Stocks Slide as Greek Talks Drag On

By CHRISTINE HAUSER and MATTHEW SALTMARSH

Investors shed risky assets in the United States and Europe on Monday in a sign of increasing pessimism about Greece's debt crisis.

Profiles in Science | Richard Dawkins

A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy

By MICHAEL POWELL

The Oxford don, a liberal atheist who is arguably the world's most influential evolutionary biologist, continues to turn the prevailing view of evolution and natural selection on its head.

Multimedia

Video: TimesCast

President Obama vows to veto deficit-reduction plans that don't increase taxes; violence escalates in Yemen's capital; and the United Nations General Assembly begins.

Opinion

Op-Ed Columnist

Fill In the Blanks

By BILL KELLER

Why does Obama let his critics define him?

BUSINESS

Fed Runs Risk of Doing Less Than Investors Expect

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

The Federal Reserve is under pressure from investors to act to encourage growth and from Republican presidential candidates and others to refrain from acting.

Obama Offers Plan to Cut Deficit by Over $3 Trillion

By HELENE COOPER

President Obama unveiled a plan on Monday that uses entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings to reduce the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

DealBook

Tyco to Split Into Three Companies

By DEALBOOK

Tyco International said that it plans to split into three public companies, the latest business to announce a break-up.

Netflix to Break Business in Two

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

Reed Hastings said Netflix's DVD-by-mail service would be split apart and renamed Qwikster, and he said he "messed up" in handling recent changes to pricing and subscription services.

Airbus Raises Its Forecast for Demand

By NICOLA CLARK

The European plane maker cited expectations of increasing wealth in Asia and growth in low-cost airlines in the United States and Europe.

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