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Downtown Austin lost power overnight when two transformers caught fire Saturday evening.

Austin Energy said the problem was caused by two transformers catching fire around 8:30 p.m.

Saturday.

The area affected was between Congress and Red River and 12th Street and 5th Street. ...

AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona says on her Facebook page she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago.

AP - Wikipedia is blocking visitors from its English-language articles and Google has blacked out the logo on its home page as they join other sites in protesting legislation pending in Congress that's aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content.

Wikipedia is blocking visitors from its English-language articles and Google has blacked out the logo on its home page as they join other sites in protesting legislation pending in Congress that's aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content.

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President Obama asked Congress on Friday to give him the power to consolidate certain U.S. agencies. Doing that, he says, will reduce the number of federal jobs and make government more efficient.

No president has had this kind of authority since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

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For the second year in a row, no festive lights will decorate historic Congress Avenue over the holiday season.

Austin... (via Regent Property Group)

The supercommittee's failure to reach a budget deal had been predicted for days, even weeks. And now leaders in Washington cannot agree on who is to blame, or what should happen next.

President Obama said he would veto any effort to get rid of the automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.

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