Robert Galbraith/Reuters A customer buying medical marijuana in Oakland, Calif. The city collected $ 1.4 million in taxes from dispensaries last year. OAKLAND, Calif. — As the stubborn economic downturn has forced this city to take painful steps to balance its budget in recent years, it has increasingly turned
Stephan Savoia/Linked Press Mitt Romney headed to a 1994 debate with Senator Edward M. Kennedy in which Mr. Romney stated he would not impose his abortion beliefs on others. WASHINGTON — From the moment he left company for politics, the issue of abortion has bedeviled Mitt Romney. In 1994,
BOYS TOWN, Neb. — On a clement winter day at the edge of the Plains, two males in black trod a type of hallowed ground. A single was a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Steven E. Boes, and the other a Hasidic rabbi, Shais Taub. They had been walking
A baby’s head is floppy. If shaken, tiny blood vessels can tear and bleed inside the baby’s brain By Claire Bates Last updated at 11:02 AM on 10th February 2012 Ellis Brigden was 14 when he died in May possibly 2009. But the disabled youngster’s fate had been sealed
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration, seeking to rein in a runaway political furor over birth control and religious liberty, is set to announce a possible compromise on Friday that is meant to calm ire from the right about a new administration rule that would require health insurance plans — including those
Harbor’s EdgeThe River Terrace, above, a dining room at the Harbor’s Edge retirement community in Norfolk, Va., has been closed to residents in assisted living or nursing care. Residents at Harbor’s Edge, an upscale retirement community in downtown Norfolk, Va., appreciate their gracious dining area, known as the River
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, seizing on the type of social issue that motivates and unifies their base, stepped forcefully Wednesday into the battle over an Obama administration rule requiring health insurance plans provided by Catholic universities and charities to offer free birth control to women, vowing to fight back
