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Head of new U.S. corporate health plan cites surgery as biggest cost
Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thurs...
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'Heartbroken' father of designer Kate Spade dies at age 89
The father of fashion designer Kate Spade has died just over two weeks after the suicide of his daughter, the family said on Thursday. Earl F. Brosnahan Jr., 89, had been...
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Parents in California torture case ordered to stand trial: prosecutors
A judge on Thursday ordered a married couple to stand trial on charges of torture, false imprisonment and abuse for their treatment of 13 siblings who were found imprisoned and ...
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U.S. prosecutors accuse Texas oil man Frack Master' of fraud
A Texas oil and gas businessman who called himself the "Frack Master" has been charged with securities fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme that defrauded inve...
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Trump seeks to ease limits on child immigrant detentions
The Trump administration asked a federal court on Thursday to ease curbs on the detention of immigrant children who enter the country illegally with their parents, a key part of...
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U.S. energy industry's methane gas emissions underestimated by EPA: study
Oil and gas drilling gives off far more of the powerful greenhouse gas methane than the U.S. government estimates as leaky wells go unnoticed by federal regulators, scientists s...
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U.S. appeals court calls D.C. sniper's life sentences illegal
A federal appeals court on Thursday said a sniper serving life in prison without parole over deadly shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C. area in 2002 must be resenten...
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SEC judge appointments unconstitutional, U.S. high court says
The U.S. Supreme Court gave presidents more control over key jobs in federal agencies on Thursday, ruling that the way the Securities and Exchange Commission selected in-house j...
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Trump directs U.S. agencies to reunite families at border; Melania visits region
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was directing federal agencies to begin reuniting children and parents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border after entering th...
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