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April 3, 2013

UN overwhelmingly approves treaty to regulate arms trade

The treaty still needs to be ratified by each country and likely faces a difficult fight in the United States.
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April 3, 2013

‘Disturbing’ video taints coach

NEWARK, N.J. – Rutgers said it would reconsider its decision to retain basketball coach Mike Rice after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs. The videotape, broadcast Tuesday on ESPN, prompted scores of outraged social media comments as well as sharp criticism from New […]
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April 3, 2013

In Focus: NRA: Arm school staffers, save lives

Responding to the Newtown, Conn., massacre, it recommends firearms training for one or more employees per school who pass a background check.
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April 3, 2013

Health care subsidies carry tax risk

Some Americans will be asked to estimate their 2014 earnings and could end up owing money.
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April 3, 2013

Health officials planning ‘endgame’ strategy for polio

Challenges for eradication of the disease are the high cost and security for vaccination workers.

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April 3, 2013

Audit says steaks not tested for E. coli

Despite numerous illnesses among consumers, federal meat inspectors fail to test steaks and other mechanically tenderized beef products for a dangerous strain of E. coli, according to a newly released federal audit. That failure continues, according to the audit, “even though these products present some additional risk for E. coli contamination.” Food safety advocates were […]
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April 3, 2013

Dispatches

WASHINGTON Obama proposes spending $100 million to study brain President Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries. He asked Congress to spend $100 million next year to start a […]
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April 2, 2013

NRA study: Train school employees to use guns

But critics say the report "misses the point" by not endorsing universal background checks for gun buyers.
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April 2, 2013

Possible human remains found in new 9/11 debris

The last sifting effort ended in 2010. This time, crews were able to dig up parts of the trade center site that were previously inaccessible to workers.
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April 2, 2013

Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan

The legislation, which includes a ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines, is hailed as "a message that should resound in 49 other states and in Washington."