A woman’s right to choose is again center stage, and hearings on anti-abortion bills were the opening acts of Washington’s 2011 congressional theater, where a new conservative majority has given the issue top billing. Relying on an expansive reading of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland had nearly five times the acceptable number of juveniles locked up in adult detention centers for extended periods in 2008, putting the state out of compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and in jeopardy ...

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Del. Anthony O’Donnell has sponsored a bill that requires adults to provide proof of U.S. citizenship before they are eligible to receive certain public benefits as a way to stop illegal immigrants from taking advantage of taxpayer-funded services. While illegal ...

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Dropping out of college after a year can mean lost time, burdensome debt and an uncertain future for students. Now there’s an estimate of what it costs taxpayers. And it runs in the billions. States appropriated almost $6.2 billion for ...

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NEW YORK — American International Group Inc. says it is repaying nearly $4 billion in federal bailout loans. The insurer said Monday it will pay back the taxpayer-funded loans with proceeds from a recently completed $4.4 billion debt sale at ...

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