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Pushed off the front pages last week by the Boston Marathon bombing was a Chicago horror story with implications as far-reaching as any terrorist plot. FBI agents raided a small hospital on Chicago's West Side where, according to federal investigators,...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Lawmakers began setting the table Wednesday for how to spend $49 billion in the next Michigan budget, with big disputes to be resolved next month over expanding Medicaid, boosting road maintenance, giving tax credits for movie-...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Low-income Michigan families would have to take drug tests and make sure their children don't miss too much school to qualify for some welfare benefits, under legislation in the state House. A bill recently approved by the...

* Hearings begin on Friday * Conservatives say bill would worsen unemployment * Foes claim plan would strain entitlement programs By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - As a bipartisan Senate group worked over the past few months to...

WASHINGTON -- The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions. And it encourages rent-seekers to exploit...

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" -- a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms -- to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work....

Following the recent arrests of two Central Florida fathers for extreme child abuse, local officials have launched an initiative to give new dads and male caretakers more parenting support. "There are a lot of classes and programs out there for...

WASHINGTON — The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions. And it encourages rent-seekers to...

WASHINGTON -- The discouraging March employment report, with a job increase of only 88,000, raises questions well beyond the dreary state of today's labor market. Prolonged high unemployment may be silently shredding the social fabric in ways that last...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Nicolas Maduro, who served as Venezuela's interim president in the weeks after the death of his mentor, President Hugo Chavez, won a narrow victory over Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles to become the country's elected...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — More than 3,500 lottery winners in Michigan received public assistance last year or lived with people on welfare, food stamps or other aid, a state agency reported Monday. The count stems from a 2012 state law that required...

The class at Oakland Mills High School was English for Speakers of Other Languages, which meant the students were accustomed to hearty doses of vocabulary. Even so, they appeared taken aback when Principal Frank Eastham laced his motivational speech...