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For many Americans, health cover is key to a job

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:07:36 -0400

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (Reuters) - Real estate agent Lisa DeWaal serves coffee at a Starbucks outlet for four hours every morning before she goes to the office to start her "day job."

Waves of job losses sap U.S. states' budgets

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:32:12 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Already sapped by a long U.S. recession, states' budgets will likely shrivel even more as waves of Americans lose their jobs, and the damage done to public services such as education could last for years.

"Cash for Clunkers" wins over U.S. drivers, dealers

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:19 -0400

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Having driven the equivalent of six smoke-belching laps of the planet, Tony Metzler figured his aging Chevrolet Blazer SUV would not make a good trade for a new car. Until now that is.

U.S. journalist says broke North Korean law, seeks amnesty

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:13:12 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea and accused of illegally entering the country has told her sister they broke the law, prompting the United States on Thursday to urge Pyongyang to grant them amnesty.

U.S. schools have a lesson plan for a pandemic

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:41 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planning helped but it was improvisation using cell phones and sticky notes that enabled school nurse Mary Pappas to cope when the U.S. swine flu epidemic started in her tiny office in April.

Pittsburgh aims to strut its stuff at G20 meeting

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:17:18 -0400

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Pittsburgh is hoping the world's most powerful leaders will see more than the city's quaint funicular trains and picturesque rivers when they meet here in September.

Retail group opposes Wal-Mart on health care

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:36:30 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. retail industry's main lobby group voiced its strong opposition to employer mandated health care coverage on Thursday, pitting itself against Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, which has said it would support such a measure.

Investigators blame turbulence for Fossett's crash

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:40:03 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudden turbulence likely caused adventurer Steve Fossett to lose control of the small plane he was piloting and crash into a mountain in California in 2007, U.S. safety investigators said on Thursday.

Sex offenders under bridge sue Florida county

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:02 -0400

MIAMI (Reuters) - Two convicted sex offenders living in a shabby tent camp under a Miami bridge filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to overturn the law they say forces them to remain there.

Chicago cemetery graves dug up and resold: police

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:15:50 -0400

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four Chicago-area cemetery workers were accused on Thursday of digging up hundreds of graves and dumping the remains so the burial plots could be resold, prosecutors said on Thursday.