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Shutdown impact: Defense workers return to work
A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Mail is being delivered. Social Security and Medicare benefits continue to flow. But vacationers are being turned away from national parks and Smithsonian museums, and that's having a ripple effect on those businesses and communities that ...
AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EDT
Threat of default overtakes government shutdown as center of attention for Obama, Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets in the U.S. and overseas. A gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the ...
Ariz. to trim voting if citizenship proof lacking
Arizona officials will seek to ban residents from voting in statewide races if they can't prove citizenship — a move that critics called vindictive in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said the state couldn't require such documentation to cast ballots for federal offices. The change was ...
Donors pledge up to $10 million to fund Head Start
A donation of up to $10 million from two philanthropists will help keep Head Start programs running during the federal government shutdown, National Head Start Association officials said Monday evening. Laura and John Arnold's donation will help serve more than 7,000 at-risk children while the government shutdown continues, NHSA officials ...
Rule to bar Iowa abortion pill system moves ahead
A new Iowa rule ending the practice of distributing abortion-inducing pills via a conferencing system will move forward, a legislative committee decided Monday. The Iowa Board of Medicine's rule will now go into effect Nov. 6. The committee meeting was the last opportunity to stop the rule administratively. The issue ...
Carter: Middle class today resembles past's poor
Former President Jimmy Carter says the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House. Carter offered his assessment of the nation's economic challenges Monday at a construction site ...
Debt limit overtaking shutdown as US crisis focus
A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets in the U.S. and overseas. A gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the threats. Stocks got a case of the jitters on Wall Street, and halfway around the world ...
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