Missouri driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards will continue to be accepted at airport checkpoints and most federal buildings for the time being, despite a warning from the Department of Homeland Security that an extension for complying with the REAL ...
Read More »5 years after Tucson shooting, Gabby Giffords is in action
In the past five years, Gabby Giffords has hiked the Grand Canyon, gone skydiving, raced in a 40-mile bike ride and founded an advocacy group that helped persuade President Barack Obama to take executive action on gun control. That’s while ...
Read More »Hold the 16-oz drink, limit salt — gov’t offers guidelines
Better cut down on sugar, especially those 16-ounce drinks, and limit your salt. But you might not need to worry quite as much about eggs. The Obama administration’s latest dietary guidelines, released Thursday, seek to help Americans reduce their likelihood ...
Read More »Small business crystal ball: Don’t look for boom in 2016
Companies in some industries and in certain parts of the U.S. may have a strong 2016, but overall, small businesses can expect a continuation of the slow, uneven growth they experienced in 2015. Surveys show owners generally have lowered expectations ...
Read More »Alabama justice: Order against gay marriage still in place
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a US. Supreme Court decision effectively legalized same-sex marriage more than six months ago. The outspoken ...
Read More »Cruz’s birth in Canada unlikely to cloud run for president
It seems like only yesterday that skeptics of Barack Obama’s birth in Hawaii rushed to the Supreme Court to try to block the son of an American mother and Kenyan father from taking office as president. The justices turned away those ...
Read More »AP fact check: Obama’s gun proposals may fall short of goals
President Barack Obama’s proposals to tighten gun control rules may not accomplish his goal of keeping guns out of the hands of would-be criminals and those who aren’t legally allowed to buy a weapon. In short, that’s because the conditions ...
Read More »Fed minutes: Some saw December rate hike as ‘close call’
Despite the Federal Reserve’s unanimous vote to raise a key interest rate last month, some policymakers viewed their decision as a “close call” because of stubbornly low inflation. Going forward, officials believed economic conditions would likely justify “only gradual increases” ...
Read More »Survey: US progress on health insurance stalled in 2015
Going into President Barack Obama’s last year in office, progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under his signature health care law, according to a major survey out Thursday. The share of U.S. adults without health insurance ...
Read More »Workers are saving more for retirement, led by Millennials
Workers are saving more for retirement, and the youngest — not exactly known for squirreling money away — are boosting their savings rates faster than any other age group. Millennials between the ages of 25 and 34 are saving a ...
Read More »Judge: Monkey cannot own selfie photos copyright
A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos, a federal judge said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge William Orrick said in federal court in San Francisco that “while Congress and the president ...
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