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Road and Transit Bans Take Effect as Snowstorm Barrels Into Northeast

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:38 PM PST

Driving bans took effect across New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut, subway and bus service was suspended, and Hudson River crossings closed.

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White House to Propose Allowing Oil Drilling off Atlantic Coast

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:25 PM PST

While backing a decades-old effort by the energy industry, the Obama administration is also expected to ban drilling in some areas off Alaska.

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U.S. and India Share Sense of Unease Over China

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 07:22 PM PST

President Obama found that his concerns were closely aligned with those of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the two leaders agreed to a joint statement chiding Beijing.

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National Briefing | Washington: Reid Is Home After Surgery for Injuries

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 07:07 PM PST

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada was back at his home in Washington on Monday after surgery for injuries sustained in an exercise accident on Jan. 1.

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National Briefing | South: Virginia: Ex-Governor Free During Appeal

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 07:03 PM PST

Former Gov. Bob McDonnell will remain free while he appeals his corruption convictions, a federal court ruled Monday.

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National Briefing | South: Alabama: State Will Contest Ruling for Gay Marriage

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST

The state on Monday began the process of appealing a federal judge's decision that overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

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National Briefing | New England: Massachusetts: Judge Unfazed by Pace of Bomb Trial

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:52 PM PST

The judge in the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombing, said Monday that he was not discouraged by the slow pace of jury selection.

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National Briefing | Midwest: Iowa: Governor in Hospital for Flulike Symptoms

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:51 PM PST

Gov. Terry Branstad was hospitalized Monday after he fell ill at an event.

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Treatment of Overdose Will Cost Cities Less

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:46 PM PST

The Clinton Foundation on Monday announced that it had negotiated a lower price for an emergency treatment that can prevent heroin overdoses with a company that makes it.

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World Briefing: Canada: Residents Tests Positive for H7N9 Bird Flu After Trip to China

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:36 PM PST

A resident of British Columbia has tested positive for the H7N9 avian flu virus in the first documented case of the infection in a human in North America, the federal government said Monday.

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U.S. Aid Agency Suspends Group From New Contracts

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:28 PM PST

One of the United States Agency for International Development's largest contractors, International Relief and Development, will not be awarded any new contracts over questions about its spending...

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Plan to Protect Refuge Has Alaskans Offended and Fearful Over Money

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:18 PM PST

Bitter reaction to the Obama administration's proposal to protect a huge portion of the Arctic goes beyond political divisions over oil and environmental policy.

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Budget Office Slashes Estimated Cost of Health Coverage

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:58 PM PST

Changes to the predicted price tag for coverage under the Affordable Care Act resulted from many factors, including a general "slowdown in the growth of health care costs."

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DealBook: Investment Riches Built on Auto Loans to Poor

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:40 PM PST

A booming business in lending to poor people with bad credit who need cars to get to work is as much about Wall Street's demand for high returns as it is about used vehicles.

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Decades After Sit-In, South Carolina Seeks to Make Things Right

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:24 PM PST

In a courtroom on Wednesday morning, the State of South Carolina is expected to officially vacate the life-changing misdemeanor conviction that it secured more than a half-century ago against...

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A Drone, Too Small for Radar to Detect, Rattles the White House

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:12 PM PST

A system to detect flying objects failed to pick up a small drone, raising questions about whether the Secret Service could bring down a similar object if it endangered the president.

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Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:01 PM PST

The goal, announced at the billionaire brothers' annual winter retreat, is an unparalleled effort by outside groups to shape a presidential election.

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C.I.A. Officer Is Found Guilty in Leak Tied to Times Reporter

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:01 PM PST

Jeffrey A. Sterling was convicted of espionage on charges that he told a New York Times reporter about a secret operation to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

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Marcus Borg, Liberal Christian Scholar, Dies at 72

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 04:59 PM PST

Professor Borg was among a group of scholars, known as the Jesus Seminar, who set out to discern which of Jesus' acts and utterances could be confirmed as historically true, and which were merely...

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Oklahoma Asks Supreme Court to Delay Executions

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 04:42 PM PST

Legal officials in Oklahoma are seeking a delay by the United States Supreme Court until it decides whether the state's combination of lethal drugs used in executions is constitutional.

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