After President Obama said a deal was "within sight," a tax agreement was evolving in the Senate — but the House acknowledged it would not vote on fiscal measures before the midnight deadline. America ...

Members of Congress are about to flee Capitol Hill, and they'll be gone until Nov. 13, one week after Election Day. As they shift to full-time campaigning, lawmakers are leaving behind many questions ...

Timeframe: Now through mid-to-late December, according to NBC News' First Read, which insists that Washington always waits till right before deadline. What to expect: Campaign-style speeches, floating ...

No matter what happens in November—whether we end up with a divided government or one-party rule—we’ll likely avoid a fiscal cliff, said Dr. David Kelly, chief global strategist and head of the global ...

It’s easy to get confused by where negotiations stand on the fiscal cliff. House Speaker John Boehner says he’s “optimistic” one day, only to be “disappointed” the next by the lack of progress.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The long, bumpy road to America's "fiscal cliff" has been traced over many years by Congress and successive U.S. presidents. Some of the steps along the way had good intentions; ...

I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, last year the Occupy Wall Street movement dominated headlines for weeks and added terms like the 99 percent to our political ...

In the waning hours of 2012, it was announced that a deal had been reached in the Senate to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, but a vote on the measure seemed unlikely. At approximately 2 am Tuesday, ...

The fiscal cliff negotiations have the feel of a major sporting event. The media largely describe the cliff as a two-party conflict, with each side having a fighter in the ring. What House Speaker ...

How sharp is the “ax” in “tax” to U.S. Equity Valuations? Brian Singer, the head of William Blair's Dynamic Allocation Strategies team, explores in a new white paper exploring the implications of the ...