The thoroughly discredited story about an alleged University of Virginia gang rape passed off by Rolling Stone magazine as investigative journalism was neither investiga...
You may notice your doctor is a little more distracted than usual. Even edgy. Maybe that’s because a 21 percent cut in physicians’ Medicare fees kicked in Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON — Every so often, we ought to celebrate our victories. The auto bailout is a case in point. Six years ago, it was wildly controversial, with the fate of Gener...
As if federal budget negotiations weren’t messy enough, President Barack Obama is hoping to use the process simultaneously to untangle regulatory knots, starting with fo...
Five years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the political debate between its supporters and its opponents continues to rage with remarkably little change.
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There are people in New York City who want to frighten, attack, maim and kill. If our concerns about that are often vague, they were given names and faces Thursday.
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NEW YORK — When making up their minds about the nuclear deal with Iran, people are properly focused on its details. But to figure out whether an agreement that limits an...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finally turned its regulatory gaze to short-term lenders — think payday loan and automobile title loan companies — that buil...
Children learn what to do — and what not to do — by watching adults. Nowhere is that truer than in the classroom, with teachers serving as role models for students.
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As you labor over your tax returns this month, spare a moment of sympathy for the least-loved agency in the federal government: the Internal Revenue Service.
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