President Barack Obama makes a statement about his budget during a news conference on the White House. (AP)
President Obama held his first news conference of the year, and defended his budget proposal as Republicans call for deeper cuts. We speak with Ben Smith, reporter and blogger for Politico.
The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.
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We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.
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The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.
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