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WILKES-BARRE – Two city families each with a long history in politics and the funeral business have merged.
FORT WORTH, Texas — If your most recent flight felt crowded, it was.
NEW YORK — Investors added to the week’s strong gains in the stock market after finding some positives in a surprisingly weak jobs report.
Outstanding consumer credit fell by $14.8 billion to $2.46 trillion in September, down 4.7 percent compared with a year ago.
WILKES-BARRE – Two city families each with a long history in politics and the funeral business have merged.
Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be
It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.
Americans have more than triple the debt they had in 1982, and less than half the savings. They spend 10 weeks longer off the job. And a bigger share of them have no health insurance, leaving them one medical emergency away from financial ruin.
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday and later told them: "Now is the time to finish the job."
Making pitches to lawmakers in person and then from the White House, Obama pushed the U.S. House to move ahead with his top domestic priority
Chinese premier: Africa trade push is 'selfless'
China's premier stressed Saturday that his country's push to boost already burgeoning trade ties with Africa was "sincere and selfless," as the Asian powerhouse battled criticism its quest for natural resources was at the expense of the poverty-ravaged continent.
In a speech punctuated with terms like "equality" an
President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House voted to advance debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
Emerging from a closed-door meeting with the president, Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted approval of the bill later in th
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that ...
A national spokesman for the Philadelphia transit system's largest union says reports of a tentative agreement were "premature" and the negotiations aimed at ending a ...
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