First Amendment concerns under Trump head news summary including fugitive physician, shrinking federal docket and a registry of exonerated convicts.

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Lockheed Martin has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 2015 for a second consecutive year, the company announced today. The 2015 Index represents the top 10 percent of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global ...

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U.S. stocks slumped again Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging more than 1,000 points at one point in a sell-off that sent a shiver of fear from Wall Street to Main Street. Stocks regained some of that ground ...

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U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years, a sign that this year's strong hiring trend is likely to continue.

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U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs in May, a substantial gain for a fourth straight month, fueling hopes that the economy will accelerate after a grim start to the year.

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NEW YORK — The stock market hit an all-time high Thursday as investors put the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis behind them and focused on corporate earnings. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 11.61 points, or 0.7 percent, ...

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NEW YORK — Strong earnings from tech giants nudged the stock market to a five-year high Wednesday. Investors drew encouragement from a vote by the House of Representatives to let the government keep paying all of its bills for another ...

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WASHINGTON — The sluggish job market is weighing on the U.S. economy three years after the Great Recession ended and it doesn’t look to be getting much better any time soon. A measure of the number of people applying for ...

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Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world’s best-known stock index. So don’t they deserve each other? Consider this: If Apple had been added to the Dow in June 2009, the last ...

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Life is full of risks. Usually we can identify risk and measure it. In our personal lives, it is deciding whether to speed up or slow down when confronted with a yellow light, crossing the street quickly to avoid a ...

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