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Associated Press Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the Republican vice presidential candidate, returns to Capitol Hill to vote on a stopgap spending bill that avoids a government shutdown but carries a price tag $19 billion higher than the budget he wrote as chairman of the House Budget Committee, in Washington, on Thursday.
House passes 6-month spending bill
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to put the government on autopilot for six months, precluding a shutdown through the election and postponing a potential showdown on GOP vice presidential nomi...
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Associated Press Public school teachers protest against billionaire Hyatt Hotel mogul Penny Pritzker Thursday at Chicago's Congress Plaza. Protesters said that $5.2 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds being used to build a new Hyatt hotel in Hyde Park would be better spent on meeting basic student needs.
Talks to end teachers’ strike make progress
CHICAGO — The city’s public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district kept talking Thursday, with both sides saying they ...
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Associated Press Protester Eric Moore sips on an extra-large beverage during a protest against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to prohibit licensed food establishments from using containers larger than 16 ounces to serve high-calorie drinks July 9, at City Hall in New York. The era of the supersized cola may come to an end in New York City today when health officials are expected to approve the 16-ounce limit.
NYC ban on big, sugary drinks could help
NEW YORK — The era of the supersized cola may come to an end in New York City on Thursday, when health officials are expected to approve an unprecedented 16-ounce limit on sodas and other sugary dr...
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Associated Press Carlos Gonzalez and Elsa Guzman eat breakfast at a McDonald's restaurant Wednesday in New York. McDonald's restaurants across the country will soon get a new menu addition: The number of calories in the chain's burgers and fries.
New menu item: calorie counts
NEW YORK — McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. will soon get a new menu addition: The number of calories in the chain’s burgers and fries. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Wednesday that ...
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Romney, Obama trade barbs over Middle East attacks
WASHINGTON — Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday of showing weakness in the face of tumultuous events that left four U.S. diplomats dead i...
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US marshals capture man who fled Texas rape trial
HOUSTON — A man who fled his trial a day before being convicted and sentenced in the repeated group sexual assault of an 11-year-old Southeast Texas girl was captured Tuesday after being a fugitive...
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Employer-based health insurance costs rise
WASHINGTON — The cost of job-based family health insurance continues to tick upward in 2012, increasing faster than employee wages and overall inflation for the 13th straight year, according to a n...
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Associated Press Chicago public school teachers walk a picket line outside Lane Tech High School on Tuesday on the second day of a strike in the nation's third-largest school district. Negotiations by the two sides failed to come to an agreement Tuesdayz in a dispute over evaluations and job security.
Parents support Chicago teachers but for how long?
CHICAGO — As Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day, they were joined by many of the very people who are most inconvenienced by their strike: the parents who must now scramble to...
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Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leaves after speaking to members of the National Guard Association Convention in Reno, Nev., Tuesday.
Partisan jibes going on hold for 9/11 — but politics are not
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney declared a fleeting truce for partisan digs Tuesday as the nation remembered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but campaign politics crackle...
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Associated Press Vice President Joe Biden (center) and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (right) walk in front of The Wall of Names, containing the names of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93, as they arrive for a memorial service at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday.
How the nation and world commemorated 9/11
A look at some commemorations on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks: NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors and Marines aboard a warship forged with 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Cen...
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