Applications for jobless benefits up modestly, but continuing claims reach highest level in 2 years
[ad_1] Slightly more Americans filed for jobless claims last week, but the overall number of people in the U.S. collecting
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Government programs
Hundreds of thousands in North Carolina will be added to Medicaid rolls this week
[ad_1] RALEIGH, N.C. — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to
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Senator: White House not seeking conditions on military aid to Israel, despite earlier Biden comment
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — National security adviser Jake Sullivan told lawmakers this week that the White House is not seeking to
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Biden targeting GOP’s Boebert in fresh political attack on Republicans
[ad_1] DENVER — President Joe Biden will try to turn Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado into the embodiment of Republican
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The debate over Ukraine aid was already complicated. Then it became tangled up in US border security
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — As war and winter collide, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged during a recent
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Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills
[ad_1] ELMSFORD, N.Y. — When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed
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House Republicans look to pass two-step package to avoid partial government shutdown
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his proposal on Saturday to avoid a partial government shutdown by extending
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Projects featuring Lady Bird Johnson’s voice offer new looks at the late first lady
[ad_1] DALLAS — Texas college student Jade Emerson found herself entranced as she worked on a podcast about Lady Bird
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Mississippi voters will decide between a first-term GOP governor and a Democrat related to Elvis
[ad_1] JACKSON, Miss. — Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is trying to win a second term in a conservative state where
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Offshore wind projects face economic storm. Cancellations jeopardize Biden clean energy goals
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series
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