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Fast Track—it’s a term that’s in the news more lately these days. And for good reason. Early in January, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) have introduced a bill that would bring back a bad idea that’s been dead since 2007.
On Tuesday night, President Obama is going to give his fifth state of the union address. The president is likely to call for policies that will help working people, like an increase in the minimum wage and the extension of unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed workers.
The Deep South is the next target for the deep freeze in a winter that won’t quit.Forecasters warned that ice could soon coat the front porches of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., where winter storm alerts were posted Monday for the first time in almost four years.
Debris from a gigantic avalanche blocking the only road into an Alaskan city could take "at least a week" to clear as officials worry about the possibility of very dangerous" flash floods.
A pregnant woman who lapsed into a brain-dead state late last year was removed from life support on Sunday after a Texas hospital announced it would comply with a judge's order to disconnect her from the machines keeping her alive.
The gunman who shot and killed two skate store employees at a Maryland shopping mall had no criminal record, police said Sunday.Officials said Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, of College Park, Md.
Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.Lawson's wife, Susan Lawson, said Sunday that her husband died Jan. 10 at his California home.
A pair of firefighters facing down an inferno at an apartment complex near downtown Toledo were killed Sunday, city officials said.The two firefighter fatalities were reported to the Lucas County coroner's office Sunday, deputy coroner Dr. Maneesha Pandey told the Toledo Blade newspaper.
Authorities on Sunday identified the gunman who shot and killed two skate store employees at a Maryland shopping mall Saturday.Official said Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, of College Park, Md.
A Russian college student in Pennsylvania was charged with unlawful possession of weapons of mass destruction and risking catastrophe on Friday, according to authorities.
