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The Supreme Court, taking up a closely watched challenge to Obamacare, wrestled Tuesday with whether for-profit companies have a right to religious freedom and can invoke it to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives.
The death toll from the Washington mudslide is expected to rise Tuesday, but the fire chief said some victims may never be found.
When you hear a conservative argument as to why we can't pass a policy that helps working families, you are pretty safe in assuming that it won't stand up to closer examination. In today's example, the topic is paid sick days. Extremist pro-business groups that oppose requiring that paid sick days be offered to employees often make the cynical argument that if paid sick days are offered, workers will exploit and abuse them and that will hurt businesses. The real-world evidence, not surprisingly, says otherwise.
The death toll from the Washington mudslide is expected to rise Tuesday, but the fire chief said some victims may never be found.
The Supreme Court, taking up a closely watched challenge to Obamacare, wrestled Tuesday with whether companies have a right to religious freedom and can invoke it to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives.
Dozens of vehicles collide on Highway 55 near Mendota Heights, Minn., Monday afternoon. One person was sent to the hospital.
Today is the 103nd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York's Greenwich Village. The tragedy took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers. Most were trapped and died behind the building’s locked doors and others plunged to their deaths as they jumped from windows from the eighth floor and above.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he has signed a declaration for a state of emergency in the state of Washington, where at least 14 people have been killed in a mudslide and dozens more are missing.
Protesters chanted and waved signs at the Supreme Court on Tuesday while the justices convened to hear a closely watched case — whether Obamacare violates the religious freedom of employers by requiring them to provide insurance for contraceptives.
