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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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US civil trials at risk without budget deal
WASHINGTON — Federal civil jury trials in the United States probably would grind to a halt if Congress fails to reach a budget deal and $600 billion in automatic spending cuts kick in next year, a ...
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In three swing states, voters are wary, restive
Their party conventions behind them and a two-month sprint for the White House begun, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are lavishing attention on a pool of voters in bellwether regions scatte...
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Associated Press Firefighters make their way over the ruins and through clouds of smoke Oct. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center in New York. Many of the first responders and those who labored at the site in the months following the attacks suffer from a variety of respiratory ailments. On Monday, the federal government added about 50 types of cancer to the list of Sept. 11 World Trade Center-related illnesses covered by a program to pay for health coverage.
WTC responders’ coverage expands
NEW YORK — The federal government has added about 50 types of cancer to the list of Sept. 11 World Trade Center-related illnesses that will be covered by a program to pay for health coverage. Th...
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Congress returns to Washington for short pre-election session
WASHINGTON — Congress returned to Washington on Monday for an abbreviated pre-election session in which it appears likely to do the bare minimum: making sure that the government doesn’t shut down. ...
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Colleagues mourn police officer killed in motorcade crash
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The danger in seemingly banal police work of directing traffic and shutting down roadways gained new attention Monday as colleagues mourned an officer who died while working...
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Associated Press Former President George W. Bush addresses those attending the 10th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2011. For the first time, elected officials won't be allowed to speak today at an occasion that has allowed them a solemn turn in the spotlight, a change made in the name of avoiding politics.
At ground zero, can there be a politics-free Sept. 11th?
NEW YORK — The Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year. But can it ever be stripped of politics? For the first time, elected officials won’t speak...
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