Posts Tagged National governments

Judge to Bernalillo County: Fix jail conditions

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered New Mexico’s largest county to prepare a plan to bring the jail population down and to take steps to improve conditions.

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Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill.  The Oklahoma based arts and crafts chain says the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

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Japan gyrations underline economy’s vulnerability

People walk past an electronic stock indicator showing the global stock prices in Tokyo Thursday, May 23, 2013. Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. The Nikkei 225, top center, nosedived 14,483.98, or 7.3 percent to close at 14,483.98. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s financial markets gyrated wildly Thursday, underscoring the vulnerability of its economy to a loss of investor confidence as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts shock monetary easing to end two decades of stagnation.

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Muni bond investors on edge over tax proposal

BOSTON (AP) — Municipal bonds continue to provide a reliable refuge from stock market volatility and a steady source of tax-free income.

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FBI: Arrest made in Wash. state ricin letter scare

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man was arrested Wednesday in a case involving last week’s discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

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