Long-standing discrimination rule reversed
At a time when the number of claims of job discrimination on the basis of age is climbing, the Supreme Court reversed a long-standing rule Thursday and made it substantially...
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Bid gets lift from Obama
As Chicago's bid committee prepared to make its case for the 2016 Olympics to international officials, President Barack Obama offered a high-profile symbolic commitment of federal support Tuesday with an...
Senior aide to Obama pulls no punches
In his barely decorated office, beside a picture of him teaching class in a tuxedo on his wedding day, Austan Goolsbee has a black-and-white photo of Muhammad Ali. "My goal,"...
Bush-era rules on forests remain
As a candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama wooed environmentalists with a promise to "support and defend" a plan to protect nearly 60 million acres of pristine national forest land....
Money wires data is sought
The bleeding body of Mexican immigrant Javier Resendiz Martinez was the first thing police noticed when they raided the bungalow on North 63rd Avenue here four years ago after reports...
‘Bloodwires’over Mexican border
The bleeding body of Mexican immigrant Javier Resendiz Martinez was the first thing police noticed when they raided the bungalow on North 63rd Avenue here four years ago after reports...
Loosely defined, but czars on the rise
Kenneth Feinberg, the latest Obama administration official the news media have anointed "czar," hardly has the kind of power that would impress Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great. Feinberg,...
Suspect in museum killing had an agenda, police say
A self-described anti-Semitic ideologue was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting death of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum a day earlier, and authorities provided new...
Efforts urged to limit bird strikes
It's "not reasonable" to expect airplane engines to withstand any magnitude of bird ingestion, a federal safety expert testified Thursday, urging "a concerted, joint effort" to prevent bird strikes like...
Who will pick up the tab?
Behind the open brawling over how to rebuild the nation's health-care system, another struggle is beginning to erupt that may become the toughest test of all: Who should pay the...