WASHINGTON (AP) — The big budget deal that the White House is so happy about contains a couple of items that President Barack Obama or other administration officials were panning not too long ago.
Obama called one feature in the deal an "irresponsible budget gimmick." And Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz warily labeled another part "a very slippery slope" to be avoided.
BEIJING (AP) — China's Communist Party says all families will be allowed to have two children, ending the 1-child restriction that's lasted more than three decades. Key events in the history of China's family-planning policy:
1953: Chinese leaders suggest that the population should be controlled and approve a law on contraception and abortion, but the plan is stranded by political upheaval and the 1959-1961 famine.
