Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told an audience of insurance industry professionals Wednesday “that opposing President Obama’s health-care agenda and letting premium hikes continue would eventually hurt the health-care industry.’... Read more»
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The “Morality and Knowledge Association” recently established in Herat wants to ban women’s voices from the airwaves, remove the “corruption” of foreign movies and soap operas from Afghans’ nightly viewing, and generally bring the media back into line with what they consider “Islamic principles and Afghan culture.”... Read more»0
This will be the final year for 96-year-old Wrightstown Elementary School. The TUSD Governing Board voted unanimously Tuesday to merge the East Side school with Henry Elementary effective this fall.... Read more»0
The city’s Channel 12 will move to Access Tucson’s downtown facility, and both operations will be funded equally, the City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday.... Read more»0
Theo Padnos now admits that he was indeed a “fake” Muslim who converted to Islam at a mosque in Yemen, in front of witnesses.... Read more»0
Capping a nine-year trade dispute over U.S. farm export credit guarantees, Brazil announced it would impost a broad range of sanctions on U.S. imports.... Read more»0
Inmates in a South Texas detention facility began a series of hunger strikes in January, hoping for better conditions and fewer transfers, as advocates pleaded for the government to come through on promises to reform the immigrant-detention system.... Read more»0
The nation’s unemployment insurance system, including Arizona’s, is in crisis due to a combination skyrocketing unemployment and – in some cases – poor planning.... Read more»0
Fledgling organization Boycott Anti-Gunners, or BAG, has started a database of gun-friendly and anti-gun establishments in Tucson.... Read more»1
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who is leading a coalition of anti-abortion Democrats standing in the way of party leadership efforts to pass a health bill, signaled Monday that the impasse may be close to resolution.... Read more»1
A Caribbean pirate named Moses is giving Jamaica an unexpected source of tourism dollars - Jews.... Read more»0
President Obama will travel to Philadelphia on Monday to “try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation’s health care system, while also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a ‘final vote’ for a massive reform bill in an election year.”... Read more»0
To get its fair share of federal funding and congressional representation out of the U.S. census, Arizona must alleviate fears and generate interest among Latino residents, Democratic leaders and community activists said Friday.... Read more»0
BEKASI, Indonesia – Packed into the living room of a small house here, several hundred Christians, all dressed in their Sunday best, whispered to each other over the sermon.... Read more»0
Wrightstown Elementary, one of Tucson’s oldest – and smallest – schools, could soon merge with Henry Elementary in a pioneering move prompted by drastic cuts in state education funding.... Read more»0
A new Gallup poll asked Americans whom they trusted to reform the nation’s health care system.... Read more»0
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