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By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributorHundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have been flying home to a fresh fox hole: A debt crater that’s sucking in entire military families and could be helping to fuel the veteran suicide crisis.A bad job market, a long backlog for federal disability benefits, and occasionally unwise spending habits have been conspiring to strain the financial an...
Jose Guevara was 16 when his doctor first told him that he had leukemia. "They gave me a breakdown," Guevara told NBC News. "'You have leukemia, you're staying in the hospital,' and they brought a wheelchair.""Staying in the hospital" meant that Guevara had to spend upwards of three months at a time in a children's ward, an ordeal he endured thanks in part to constant care and support from both of...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill A Mockingbird," Harper Lee, on Friday sued her literary agent, claiming he tricked her into assigning the copyright on her book to him. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan against Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's long-time agent, Eugene Winick, who had represented her for more than 40 years. When Winick became ill in 2002, Pi...
