Michael Barone

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Policies available to young people, especially for young men, will be much more expensive than currently. The question is: will they choose to buy...

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STORY OF ODDS It was only two years ago when 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working for a humanitarian NGO in Somalia. She was teaching communities how to avoid land mines and unexploded munitions when a group of Somali pirates kidnapped her at gunpoint and held her for $45...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures mostly fell Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery fell 4.75 cents to $6.805 a bushel; July corn fell 9.5 cents to $6.40 a bushel; July oats fell 8.25 cents to $3.55 a bushel; while July soybeans jumped 13.75 cents to $14.7825 a bushel....

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NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exchange rates Tuesday, compared with late Monday in New York:

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

With the House Agriculture Committee voting to trim the $80 billion food stamp program by $3 billion a year, or 2.5 percent, the New York Times is predictably outraged. "If anything, Washington should be allocating more money to address tremendous unmet needs," the paper's Tuesday editorial...

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Sprint Nextel Corp. is offering 14 percent more than before for the stake in wireless data network operator Clearwire Corp. it does not already own, but a large shareholder said the offer was still inadequate. Sprint said Tuesday that it is offering $3.40 per share,...

Nikki Schwab

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"It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington." - What Carol Burnett had to say upon hearing the news that she was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center. Burnett will be feted Oct. 20 in Washington, with the gala performance being...

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank. Sprint said late Monday that SoftBank had waived...