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Police: Orlando office shooter apprehended
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:56:04 -0000
A man so broke that he said he didn't have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm ...
Teen charged with killing nun in N.M.
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:26:57 -0000
A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo tribal reservation ...
Suspected shooter sent to Fort Hood for 'fresh start'
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:36:12 -0000
The military must answer for whether it missed warning signs when the Fort Hood shooting suspect performed poorly as a psychiatrist ...
Young soldiers show heroism in Fort Hood tragedy
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:31:24 -0000
Unlike many, maybe even most of the soldiers on this enormous military post, privates first class Marquest Smith and Jeffrey ...
Weekend forecast: Northwest stormy; mostly dry elsewhere
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:54:40 -0000
The USA's worst weather Saturday and Sunday will be in the Northwest, which will see a wet and windy weekend thanks to a pair ...
How do you deal with food allergies when eating out?
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:58:48 -0000
USA TODAY is looking for readers with food allergies who are willing to share their unusual challenges with eating out at restaurants, ...

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Arizona's budget: Stumped
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:13 -0000
An intra-Republican rowEARLIER this year Republicans seemed to be in the ascendant in Arizona, the state of Barry Goldwater, even as they struggled in much of the country. Not only had they retained control in both houses of the state legislature, but a fluke turned a Democratic governor into a Republican one when Janet Napolitano, who became Barack Obama’s homeland-security secretary, vacated the office for Janice Brewer, who was secretary of state at the time. But Arizona’s Republicans instead descended into a bitter feud that is bankrupting their state and amusing not even Democrats. Arizona is among the states worst hit by the recession, and years of tax cuts combined with more spending under Ms Napolitano had left its budget out of balance when Mrs Brewer took over. “By her tenth day in office, she had cut more than any Arizona governor in history,” boasts her spokesman. In March Mrs Brewer went before the legislature to ask for a temporary one-cent increase in the state sales tax alongside yet more cuts. The Republicans balked. ...
Hispanic higher education: Closing the gap
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:13 -0000
Improving performance is linked in part to immigration policyTHE University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) is one of the most binational of America’s big universities. Some 90% of its students come from the borderplex—the Texan city of El Paso and its much larger sister-city, Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. More than 70% of its students are Mexican or Mexican-American.And that, in turn, means that the El Paso campus is rather different from the University of Texas’s flagship campus in Austin. More than half of UTEP students are among the first in their families to go to college, and roughly a third come from families with incomes below $20,000 a year. Diana Natalicio, UTEP’s president, says that for many of her students trouble at work, or an unexpected expense, can derail a whole year of college. UTEP tries to help, offering after-hours advice and instalment plans for tuition fees. Such measures have helped it to become one of the country’s leading sources of degrees for Hispanic students. ...
Health reform: Now or never?
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:13 -0000
Efforts to speed health legislation hit some snagsWILL the health bill making its way through Congress reach Barack Obama’s desk before the end of the year? In May he insisted: “If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not going to get it done.” Alas, the timetable may be slipping.The House is further along: a 1,990-page final bill was unveiled on November 3rd, and a vote by the full chamber may come as early as November 7th. But as this newspaper went to press, the Senate was still waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to put a cost on the Senate Democratic leadership’s own final bill before it is debated, a process that, by design, is slower than in the House. And whenever the upper chamber passes a final bill, the outcome still needs to be reconciled with the different version that will come out of the House. ...
The HIV travel ban is lifted: You're welcome
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:13 -0000
HIV-positive people will at last be allowed to visit AmericaFOR 22 years America has banned HIV-positive people from entering the country without a hard-to-get waiver for fear of the virus spreading. It has not hosted a big international AIDS conference in more than a decade either, because many HIV-positive activists would not be allowed to attend. Only a dozen other countries, including China and Russia, have similar restrictions, and there is no evidence that these bans halt the spread of AIDS. Instead, many say, it makes things worse by stigmatising carriers of the virus.On October 30th Barack Obama announced that he will do away with this cruel rule. From 2010, HIV-positive people will be able to travel to America and will also be able to apply for citizenship there. Reversing the ban will bring families together who were separated because of HIV. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,” wrote Andrew Sullivan, a British journalist who is HIV-positive after Mr Obama’s announcement. He has been nervous when visiting his family in Britain for fear that he would not be allowed to re-enter America, where he and his husband live. ...
Elections in New Jersey and Virginia: Lessons from a double defeat
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:12 -0000
Barack Obama will find it hard to take much comfort from this year’s election dayCREIGH DEEDS is a farm boy turned country lawyer from the Alleghenies, in the south-west of Virginia. On a chilly night before this week’s governors’ elections in Virginia and New Jersey, he convened a get-out-the-vote rally in Alexandria, a well-to-do suburb just across the Potomac from Washington, DC. It was a cheerless event. Of the few hundred Democratic stalwarts who showed up, many had kind words for their candidate’s heart, but not for his political skill. “He hasn’t run a very good campaign,” George Pera, a local pastor, admitted sadly. “I guess everyone knows that.” Every four years Virginia and New Jersey elect their governors, one year after the presidential election and a year before Congress’s mid-term elections. And every four years these off-year races are pounced upon as political bellwethers, even though they have proved to give little indication of which way voters will swing in the ensuing mid-terms, let alone in the presidential election two years further on. ...
Mayoral races: Money can't buy you love
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:12 -0000
A shabby victory for Michael Bloomberg, but breakthroughs elsewhereON ELECTION day in Queens, one voter asked a fellow New Yorker a question about using the voting machine. “Honey,” she replied in a smoky New York accent, “as long as you vote for Bloomberg, it doesn’t matter.” And how right she was. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s incumbent and independent mayor, only narrowly defeated Bill Thompson, his far less well-known and much poorer Democratic rival. In what turned out to be an embarrassing nail-biter, Mr Bloomberg won by just 5%, days after polls had showed him to be ahead by double digits. This was a far cry from his 20% win in 2005. Mr Bloomberg is reckoned to have spent $100m to win himself a third term in office, exceeding even the $85m he spent last time and the $74m he spent in 2001. Still, to a man worth some $17 billion, more than anyone else in New York, this is small change. Whether it is good for democracy is another matter. Mr Bloomberg was able to outspend his rival by around 16 to one. ...

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