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Sheriffs, state lawmakers push back on gun control
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — From Oregon to Mississippi, President Barack Obama’s proposed ban on new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines struck a nerve among rural lawmen and lawmakers, many of wh...
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Associated Press One of Charles A. McCoy Jr.'s guns is included in evidence during his 2005 murder trial in Columbus, Ohio (left), and a side crash test on a 2008 PT Cruiser by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is shown (right). Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second group and little about the first.
Will Obama’s order lead to surge in gun research?
MILWAUKEE — Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun ...
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JPMorgan’s Dimon gets big pay cut
NEW YORK — America’s best-known banker is getting a big pay cut. JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that it will dock the pay of CEO Jamie Dimon by more than half, to $11.5 million from $23 million. ...
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Charities worry new tax law will reduce donations
WASHINGTON — Charities and nonprofit organizations are worried that new limits on tax deductions for high earners will hurt donations just as charitable giving is starting to rebound from the depth...
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Goldman, Morgan Stanley pay $557 million
WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will pay a combined $557 million to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in the...
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Ex-Gov. Sanford done apologizing, ready to run
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose political career was derailed four years ago because of his affair with an Argentine woman, is attempting an improbable comeback. ...
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Marine pleads guilty to urinating on corpse
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A Marine who pleaded guilty Wednesday to urinating on the corpse of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan will likely be demoted one rank under a plea agreement, although a military...
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Associated Press Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family's home Nov. 26 in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had evidence a gas company's drilling operation contaminated Lipsky's drinking water with explosive methane, and possibly cancer-causing chemicals, but withdrew its enforcement action, leaving the family with no useable water supply.
Oil company protest puts off EPA
WEATHERFORD, Texas — When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family’s drinking water had begun “bubbling” like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tai...
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Associated Press Gary Loveman, chairman, CEO and president of Caesar's Entertainment, speaks June 5 in Boston. An influential group of business CEOs chaired by Loveman is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare.
Business CEOs call for raising retirement age gradually to 70
WASHINGTON — An influential group of business CEOs is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to partially privatize the health ...
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Associated Press Gun World salesman Alfred Ozga (right) talks with a customer at the sparse display of handguns available at the store on Wednesday in Harrisville, Pa. President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales and ban military-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, contentious measures aimed at curbing gun violence in America. Ozga said he didn't think the ban on assault guns would work and that although the idea of a universal background check appears to be a good idea, he would not support it, seeing that as another infringement on constitutional rights.
Obama unveils gun plan, concedes tough fight ahead
WASHINGTON — Conceding “this will be difficult,” President Barack Obama urged a reluctant Congress on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales and ban both military-style assault we...
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