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Senate Democrats Lobby for a Reprieve for Some Who Failed to Get Insurance

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 09:01 PM PST

An extension would serve three purposes for the Obama administration: it would increase the number of insured people while reducing anger at the White House and opposition to the Affordable Care Act...

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Irving Singer, M.I.T. Professor Who Wrote ‘The Nature of Love,’ Dies at 89

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 07:49 PM PST

Mr. Singer was a writer and professor of philosophy for 65 years, nearly 55 of them at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon and His Fiancée Walked Tangled Path to Exit

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 07:03 PM PST

A shared passion for a low-carbon energy future eventually led to a personal relationship, a blizzard of inquiries, and finally a governor's resignation.

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In New York City, Jobs Come Back Without Wall Street

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 06:39 PM PST

A rise in employment in tourist-based and tech companies has outstripped the high-paying securities sector, which once fueled job creation in the city.

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C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 06:24 PM PST

The purchase plan, which began in 2005 and involved a secretive seller, yielded at least 400 warheads, some containing the nerve agent sarin, officials said.

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For Hillary Clinton, a Right Hand With a Punch

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 06:13 PM PST

John D. Podesta, a veteran infighter who has galvanized the struggling Clinton and Obama White Houses, is preparing to bring his strong hand to Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 presidential...

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Dangers, Frustrations and Snow Keep Piling Up in New England

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 05:56 PM PST

With 20 inches of snow in Boston over the weekend on top of the seven feet already on the ground, it is hard to remember when the snows began, and even harder to imagine when they might end.

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Boehner Says He’d Allow Homeland Security Shutdown

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:29 PM PST

Despite Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky's pledge to avoid shutdowns, John A. Boehner, the House speaker, said he would allow funding for one of the government's most vital agencies to lapse amid...

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F.A.A. Rules Would Limit Commercial Drone Use

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:27 PM PST

Proposed regulations requiring daylight flights with craft always being kept in sight might ground planned delivery services like Amazon's Prime Air.

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Spider Martin’s Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:22 PM PST

Mr. Martin, a photographer for The Birmingham News in Alabama, captured the weekslong events of Selma in 1965 and other events of the civil rights era.

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New Faces of Congress: Dangers Propelled Norma Torres to Move to U.S., Then to Politics

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:20 PM PST

Representative Norma J. Torres, a California Democrat, was sent from war-torn Guatemala at age 5 and ran for office after her experience as a 911 dispatcher.

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Letter From Washington: For Jeb Bush, the Problem of Family Ties

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 01:56 PM PST

As a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Bush's association with his brother George W. Bush may be hard to shake.

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As Oil Prices Slip, North Dakota Struggles to Get a Firm Grip on Its Budget

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 01:45 PM PST

The legislature meets only once every two years, so lawmakers must plan a two-year state budget while anticipating how far the price of oil may drop.

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Philip Levine, a Poet of Grit, Sweat and Labor, Dies at 87

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 01:44 PM PST

Mr. Levine's work was vibrantly, angrily and often painfully alive with the sound, smell and sinew of heavy manual labor.

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Currency Battle Is Tethered to Obama Trade Agenda

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 01:25 PM PST

A growing bipartisan majority in Congress is coalescing around a demand that the president include a robust fight on international currency manipulation.

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Motherlode Blog: Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST

Countless times, well-meaning friends, relatives, and acquaintances told me I was "lucky" to have been adopted, "lucky" even to live in America.

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