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New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy has a “treatable form” of lung cancer, her office announced Monday.“My doctor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where I’ll receive my treatment, has told me that I begin my treatment in good physical health and that he looks forward to my return to work after I recover,” she said in a statement. “My family and I will appreciate privacy while I under...    

A Roman Catholic archdiocese in Ohio must pay nearly $200,000 to a teacher who alleged she was fired after school officials learned she became pregnant through artificial insemination, a federal jury decided on Monday.Former computer instructor Christa Dias said she was removed from her post by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati in October 2010 after she told her superiors about her preg...