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Obamacare challenged in Supreme Court, but the states did it first
All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court today as it considers partisan arguments over Obamacare, but in states legislatures across the country, the Affordable Care Act issue is no less a hot-button...
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Workplace injury, illness costs being foisted on workers, government, OSHA's...
Workers and taxpayers writ large are shouldering the costs of workplace injuries and illnesses, as the changing nature of work leaves states and employers with increasingly less liability, according to...
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Hillary readies for journalism event
Ready or not, Hillary Clinton is still scheduled to headline a political journalism award ceremony this month in Washington, D.C. — where she'll face reporters who in recent weeks have written story...
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NFL lawyers tackling political concerns
Last September, when Cynthia Hogan began quarterbacking the National Football League’s Washington, D.C., office, the league was suffering through a spate of disastrous headlines — the Ray Rice domestic...
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If Obamacare critics win high court case, effects will be wildly disparate
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, nowhere will the effect be more stark than along the 400-mile border between two states my family has called home, Tennessee...
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U.S. efforts to stem 'extreme threat to global security' far from complete
Correction, March 11, 2015 6:12 p.m.:An earlier version of this story stated there are nine nations that don't have nuclear weapons but have enough fuel to build one. There are 10 such nations. Since...
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Duke Energy fined $25.1 million for groundwater damage from coal ash
North Carolina officials have slapped Duke Energy with the state’s largest-ever penalty for environmental damages, fining the utility $25.1 million for groundwater contamination caused by coal ash —...
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Flagship military university hired foreign officers linked to human rights...
Carlos Alberto Ospina Ovalle was deep in the Colombian mountains in the autumn of 1997, directing an Army brigade in a major offensive against a group that Washington formally designated that year as...
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From rural Utah to Dallas and L.A.: Smog besets communities across U.S.
RANDLETT, Utah — Mountains sweep up from a landscape of red dirt and brown scrub. Pump jacks nod, pulling oil and gas from the ground. Deer dart toward a river. Trucks swish by, a few at a time, past...
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Feds were advised of Medicare Advantage overcharges years ago
Federal health officials were advised in 2009 that a formula used to pay private Medicare plans triggered widespread billing errors and overcharges that have since wasted billions of tax dollars, newly...
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South Africa rebuffs repeated U.S. demands that it relinquish its nuclear...
PELINDABA, South Africa– Enough nuclear explosive to fuel a half-a-dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of lower Manhattan, is locked in a former silver vault at...
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The assault on Pelindaba
PELINDABA, South Africa — Shortly after midnight on a cold Thursday morning, four armed men sliced through the chain-link fence surrounding this storage site for nuclear explosives on the banks of the...
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Consumers getting 'skinned' by health insurers
The reason health care costs are so high is because Americans don’t have nearly enough “skin in the game.”That was the phrase that many of my former colleagues in the insurance industry and I began...
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America remains top arms seller to the world
The United States remains the largest exporter of weaponry to the world, with Russia hanging onto second place and China grabbing ahold of third, according to the latest annual survey by the Stockholm...
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Texas aligns itself with industry in fight against tighter smog standards
The testimony sounds the refrains of industry groups: Tightening the country’s smog standard would be too costly and isn’t necessary for public health. But these comments weren’t from industry. They...
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South African who attacked a nuclear plant is a hero to his government and...
MENLYN, South Africa —Rodney Wilkinson is nervous, insisting on a seat near the door of the Mugg & Bean restaurant in a suburban Pretoria shopping mall, ordering a beer before lunch, rushing from...
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Battle over smog standard heats up, with dueling arguments over cost
Members of Congress took sides Tuesday in a long-running debate: What’s more costly, tightening the nation's smog standard or not tightening it?Two key members of the House Science, Space and...
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Aaron Schock still gets taxpayer-funded pension
Rep. Aaron Schock, who announced his resignation today under suspicion of misusing public money, will be eligible for more of it in retirement.Schock, a Republican from Illinois, could eventually...
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Surprise at the diplomatic discord between Washington and Pretoria
Like millions of others, I’m an admirer of the modern history of South Africa: its nonviolent transition from a racist system to multiracial democracy; Nelson Mandela’s decision after decades in prison...
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Meet the top politicians, mega-donors who mingled at secretive conference
Eleven potential Republican presidential candidates, several media titans and a gaggle of top political donors ranked among attendees this month of a secretive politics and policy conference, according...
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