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Poll: Unease clouds new insurance law

Health costs are going up, many saying

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rising riches: 1 in 5 hit affluence

Group wary of government role closing the income gap

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Governors’ Medicaid decisions vary across U.S.

Some Republican governors are not playing party politics

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Nevada Vegas developer selling $7.85M mansion for bitcoin LAS VEGAS – A casino owner-turned-commercial developer is asking $7.85 million to sell a Las Vegas home, and h...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Christmas comes to remote village

KWETHLUK, Alaska – The mere presence of Santa and Mrs. Claus put broad smiles on the faces of many children in this Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo community last week, and it wasn’t just because they...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Drive to mine uranium in Va. comes to quiet pause

RICHMOND, Va. – A company is suspending its campaign to mine one of the world’s largest known deposits of uranium ore in Virginia, concluding that Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe’s opposition pre...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

With no winner, $425M Mega Millions up to $550M

DES MOINES, Iowa – One of the largest jackpots in U.S. lottery history climbed even higher Saturday after no ticket matched all six numbers to win the $425 million top Mega Millions prize. ...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Shaken, but too stirred?

Analysis shows Fleming’s James Bond to be a lush

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

IEDs believed to continue

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar effort to combat makeshift bombs will continue even after the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan ends next year. The bureaucracy th...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Limiting damage from videos a new challenge for military

WASHINGTON – In January 2012, a video showing Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters exploded on the Internet, triggering waves of outrage and prompting fears that it would incite anti-A...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study: Raw milk sickens more than widely reported

The number of consumers sickened by drinking raw, unpasteurized milk far exceeds case counts reported in well-publicized outbreaks, a new study from Minnesota suggests. In a decad...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Temperance organization reviving, targeting marijuana

PORTLAND, Maine – The mansion that serves as Maine headquarters of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union lay largely fallow until recently, with drug needles, liquor bottles and pornographi...

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World