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Well-known CNN personality Jim Acosta tried to intercept Ivanka Trump this week, but was expertly boxed out as her security detail left the reporter in the dust. The network’s chief White House correspondent confronted the first daughter Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland. Ivanka Trump and her father, President Donald Trump, were in the European nation for the World Economic Forum. But instead of asking about the state of the world’s finances, it seems Acosta had a different agenda. The CNN reporter hounded the first daughter and senior White House adviser as she descended a set of stairs, asking her about her...

London - Angry protestors shouting "shame on you" and "storm the banks" clashed with police outside the Bank of England during anti-globalization demonstrations in London Wednesday. Some 4,000 demonstrators converged on the central bank in the City of London, where windows of banks and offices were smashed. Police said 11 people had been arrested by lunchtime and riot police had been deployed. At one point, several hundred demonstrators attempted to break through barriers to reach the heavily-guarded and boarded-up central bank building. Windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland, which has been a key target for critics during the banking...

President Obama's fiscal sustainability summit at the White House Monday apparently wasn't all that stimulating. The Financial Times is reporting that Larry Summers, head of Obama's National Economic Council, actually fell asleep at the podium. This is the same event where John McCain ranted about the cost of upgrading the presidential helicopter.

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U.S. Navy (news - web sites) veteran Robert Turner holds a U.S. flag as demonstrators march in Brunswick, Ga., to protest the G-8 Summit being held on nearby Sea Island, Ga. Tuesday, June 8, 2004. Turner said he supports President Bush (news - web sites) and that he 'wanted to show my colors'. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

President George W. Bush's economic forum in Waco, Texas brings to mind a similar conference held by the then newly elected (but not yet sworn in) president, Bill Clinton, in Little Rock, Arkansas in December, 1992. Both gatherings featured a mix of businessmen, academic economists and labor leaders, seeking ways to speed up the country's recovery from a recession. Clinton had run his 1992 election campaign on the theme that the American economy was in the worst shape in fifty years. In actuality, recovery from the mild 1990 downturn had already started by mid-1991, but it had been too slow...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is intent on avoiding the economic policy pitfalls that tripped up his father. Tuesday's economic forum in Texas is part of that effort, intended to show him engaged with the nation's problems even as he vacations.</p>