The Ontario government tabled its budget today, putting deficit reduction ahead of jobs. The budget also penalizes social assistance recipients and threatens to burden postsecondary students with tuition fee hikes.

The Senate approved a package of fixes to the health care reform law Thursday, drawing to a close the chamber's year-long effort to overhaul the nation's insurance system.

But the work isn't done quite yet.

ST. LOUIS, MO - About 60 people kicked off what they say will be five days of anti-coporate power protests Wednesday, by staging a demonstration in the Bank of America building at 8th and Market downtown.

TAMPA - Almost nine years into the war in Afghanistan, there's still no guarantee of success or even much agreement on how to achieve it.

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