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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) explains why across-the-board cuts on defense spending and elsewhere is bad business.

D.C. denizens turn to happy hours, cigarettes to cope with looming budget cuts.

On Thursday, American Airlines and US Airways officially announced their long-rumored merger. And Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it made a match with Ketchup giant Heinz, in a deal worth billions.

There are less than three weeks to go until Washington's latest budget deadline — the $85 billion spending cut package known as the sequester.

Today the White House released a fact sheet on how the sequester could potentially impact jobs, the economy, and the middle class.

For one thing, 63,000 kids would get booted from Head Start.

President Obama's debate vow that a trillion dollars in automatic spending cuts “will not happen” took Washington by surprise. Making those words a reality will require a bipartisan deal that has been elusive so far.