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The labor market—and the economy overall—is improving, albeit gradually, with employers adding 236,000 jobs in February. That gain brought the unemployment rate down a few ticks from 7.9 percent to 7.7, its lowest point in four years.

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It wasn’t your run-of-the-mill show and tell.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An unpredictable winter storm is heading for New England after burying parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions with snow but barely laying a glove on Washington.

New Englanders are bracing for the possibility of strong winds, more snow and coastal flooding

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U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo) issued the following statement on the cancellation of White House tours:
“President Obama has announced that because of the sequester cuts he is cancelling all White House tours, including long-scheduled tours by tourists and schoolchildren

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — After pummeling the nation's midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm is converging on the nation's capital.

Mid-Atlantic residents are bracing for snarled traffic, power outages, and school and government shutdowns

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Venezuelans living in the United States are reacting with cautious optimism that there will be change in their homeland following President Hugo Chavez's death.

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DENVER (AP) — A U.N. drug agency says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington violates international drug treaties.

The International Narcotics Control Board urged the Barack Obama administration to challenge the legalization measures

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Update 12:34 p.m. The plane landed at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. Video from the scene appears to show the landing gear either collapsed, or was not lowered for the landing, but there was no fire after the plane completed the emergency landing.

CAHOKIA, Ill

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has selected the head of the Wal-Mart Foundation as his budget director in the midst of a partisan battle over government spending.

Obama announced his selection of Sylvia Mathews Burwell at the White House Monday, noting that she comes on as the government grapples with $85 billion in automatic cuts

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The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.

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