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Congress has successfully passed a 45-day funding bill to avert a looming government shutdown. This move comes after weeks of negotiations and political wrangling on Capitol Hill, highlighting the importance of maintaining the government's operations and services.

El Centro Regional Medical Center was one of 17 California hospitals to receive a zero-interest loan from the state. The loan will help the hospital with capita

This weekend the Bilderberg Meeting was held in Lisbon. The annual meet-up of the has-beens and wannabees of geo-politics has, of late, been eclipsed by

Fitch affirms Australia at AAA with a stable outlook

Senator John Kerry's health care plan would expand coverage butwould fall short in transforming health insurance markets andmaking patients the key decision makers in the system. In effect,it would reinforce the status quo, with (according to one estimate)nine of every 10 dollars spent going to employers, insurancecompanies, and state governments, not to individuals.

The House-Senate conferees now attempting to reconcile twoprofoundly flawed Medicare bills should go back to the drawingboard and use as a blueprint the 1999 majority recommendations ofthe National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, whichproposed that Medicare beneficiaries be given a choice betweentraditional Medicare as it exists today and new, private plansoffering comprehensive, integrated benefits including fulloutpatient prescription drug coverage.

Welfare dependency is spiraling out of control. Get a good look at accurate welfare spending increases

Throughout the country, large municipalities are laboratories of democracy. New and innovative policies introduced in one market are often exported to others, and ultimately replicated...

MARION  _ Voter apathy did not show up at candidates night Friday night in Marion.