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Obama to delay portion of Affordable Care Act

WASHINGTON - Businesses that do not insure their employees will be exempt from penalties until 2015, the Internal Revenue Service announced late Tuesday. “As we make these changes...

DATE: Jul 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama admin delays major requirement of health law

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it’s delaying a major part of the president’s health care overhaul law, the requirement that medium and large companies offer coverage. ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Investigators to examine why Ariz. blaze killed 19

PRESCOTT, Ariz. – Investigators from across the U.S. poured into the mountain town of Yarnell on Tuesday to figure out why 19 elite firefighters perished in an out-of-control wildfire and wh...

DATE: Jul 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police officers testify in George Zimmerman trial

SANFORD, Fla. – Jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial on Monday heard testimony and recordings of the neighborhood watch volunteer describing his fight with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin ...

DATE: Jul 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Barack Obama suggests all nations spy on each other WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama brushed aside sharp European criticism Monday, suggesting that all nations spy on each othe...

DATE: Jun 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Medicaid gap looms in new health-care law

WASHINGTON – Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured low-income people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama’s health-care law may be out of luck next year because their sta...

DATE: Jun 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Arizona fire chief called tent shelters a ‘last-ditch effort’

YARNELL, Ariz. – The wildfire that killed 19 firefighters came at the start of Arizona’s monsoon season – a weather phenomenon that brings lightning strikes, gusty winds, dust storms and som...

DATE: Jun 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World