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More Americans quit jobs, a sign of confidence
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans are quitting their jobs, suggesting many are growing more confident in the job market. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of people who quit their jobs in April jumped 7.2 percent to 2.25 million....
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Employment Opportunities
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DirecTV executive blasts broadcasters at congressional hearing
WASHINGTON -- Consumers should get to choose which broadcast networks they want to pay to receive, a senior DirecTV executive told Congress on Wednesday. In testimony to a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology,...
Tags: News Corp., DirecTV Group Inc., CBS Corp., Stephen King, NBC (tv network)
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Q & A: OTC morning-after pill sales coming, but not yet
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the morning-after pill to move next to the condoms on drugstore shelves right away — but after a decade-plus fight, it appears it really will happen. Backed into a corner by a series of court rulings, the Obama...
Tags: Women's Health, Plan B (drug), Kathleen Sebelius, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Barack Obama
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Children raised by gay parents come of age in Maryland
This year's Baltimore Pride is the first since marriage equality was passed in the state, but far from the first for Marylanders who grew up with gay parents. A recent study released by the Williams Institute, a think tank at the UCLA School of Law,...
Tags: Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, University of California, Los Angeles, Annapolis
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State drags feet on Medicaid expansion seen as key to Obamacare
Beginning today, The Morning Call will kick off a series of occasional stories taking a comprehensive look at how the Affordable Care Act will change health care and how Pennsylvanians access it. We will provide useful information to aid you in navigating...Tags: Career and Workplace, Elections, Government Health Care, Finance, Hospitals and Clinics
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Bike-share service delayed 2 weeks
Tribune reporterThe launch of Chicago's Divvy bicycle-sharing service, set for Friday, will be postponed for two weeks to allow "more extensive testing" of equipment, the city's transportation commissioner told the Tribune on Tuesday. The disappointing decision to...Tags: Divvy Bike Share, Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, New Products
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Obama orders list of foreign cyber-targets
WASHINGTON — President Obama has ordered his national security team to draw up a secret target list for possible cyber-attacks, a major expansion of U.S. planning for disabling and hacking into foreign computer networks, according to a copy of the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Computer Networking and Internet, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, Xi Jinping
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Don't worry; the NSA doesn't care about you
Since I have nothing to hide and would like to protect myself and my family from terrorists, I have no problem with the government looking at my e-mails and listening to my phone calls ("NSA data surveillance sparks privacy debate," June 9). I see no...
Tags: National Security Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Policy
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Midwest, but not Northern Michigan, could see strong windstorms Wednesday
WASHINGTON (AP) — A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms could affect one in five Americans on Wednesday as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds. Meteorologist are warning that the continuous line...
Tags: National Weather Service, Tornadoes, Weather Warnings, Chicago Weather, Natural Disasters
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Recognizing the sacrifice of WWII veterans
A salute to organizers of the Honor Flight of Northeast Indiana, which flies out of Fort Wayne, for providing all-expense-paid travel for area World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the National World War II Memorial that recognizes their...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Human Interest
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Looking back on good times, troubled times at Gwynn Oak Park [Reisterstown]
Do you remember Gwynn Oak Junction? Then you may have gone to the movies at what was the Ambassador Theatre, bought your groceries at Schreiber's, purchased your very first Halloween costume at Read's, spent your allowance at Ben Franklin, and gotten your...
Tags: Amusement (movie), Archdiocese of Baltimore, Halloween, Morgan State University, Religion and Belief
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City considering fee on shopping bags
Baltimore might impose a 10-cent fee on every plastic and paper bag distributed by merchants in the city — a move praised by environmentalists as a litter deterrent but decried by some businesses who say it would hurt them and their shoppers. City...
Tags: Bernard C. Young, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Local Government, Montgomery County (Virginia), Business
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