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Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge

2013-05-20 14:46:00

For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...

IRS targeted conservative groups, official says

2013-05-10 21:25:00

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...

Labor, immigrant activists to unite in Phoenix May Day rallies

2013-05-01 12:50:00

PHOENIX — Two groups that rarely see eye to eye — immigrants rights activists and labor organizers — are expected to join forces here Wednesday, marching a mile and a half from the state Capitol to join a picket at the Hyatt Regency...

Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted

2013-04-15 21:00:00

WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in...

Immigration bill would spark surge of legal arrivals

2013-04-13 20:13:00

WASHINGTON — While much of the debate over immigration has focused on the fate of the estimated 11 million people in the U.S. without legal authorization, one of the biggest immediate impacts of the reform bill being prepared in the Senate would...

May Day: Phoenix immigration rally includes workplace issues

2013-05-01 20:31:00

PHOENIX — Brenda Juarez has been in this country so long that she doesn’t remember what Mexican state she was born in. She hopes she and her mother will be allowed to stay. The two women joined about 300 people at Arizona’s state...

States try to tackle 'secret money' in politics

2013-05-02 19:30:00

WASHINGTON — Early last month, state lawyers and election officials around the country dialed into a conference call to talk about how to deal with the flood of secret money that played an unprecedented role in the 2012 election. The discussion,...

Senators disagree on how close they are to a deal on immigration

2013-03-31 12:33:00

WASHINGTON — Key senators trying to negotiate an agreement on immigration reform were divided Sunday on how close they are to reaching a consensus on the legislation. Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), touting a...

A shockingly sensible immigration plan

2013-04-03 00:00:00

The recent agreement between business and labor leaders on how to provide visas for nonagricultural workers in such industries as construction, hotels and restaurants is a surprising and welcome development. Such a breakthrough agreement would have been...

Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs

2013-04-01 12:42:00

The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...

Labor and business leaders clear hurdle in immigration talks

2013-03-30 05:19:00

WASHINGTON – Labor and business leaders have agreed to a plan for setting wages for low-skilled immigrant workers, possibly ending a scuffle that delayed negotiations in the Senate over a sweeping plan to overhaul the country’s immigration...

Dreamliner grounded, but Boeing stock soars

2013-03-28 09:42:00

This has been a bad couple of months for Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner, but not for the company’s stock price. Despite the January grounding of the Dreamliner by the Federal Aviation Administration, investors drove up shares of the aircraft...

A "Jobs" sign is seen on the front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington.

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Sen. Chuck Schumer, seen here with other U.S. senators working on an immigration reform package, has been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on a guest-worker program.

2013-04-02 16:59:25

Salary: $1,100,000 Bonus: $0 Stock awards: $2,310,005 Options awards: $$4,290,001 Total non-equity incentive pay: $2,252,8000 Change in pension value: $1,157,562 Other pay: $69,448 Photo: Thomas Wilson, CEO of Allstate, speaks during a panel discussion at the Third Annual Capital Markets Summit at

2012-05-19 07:31:42