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Student grumbling about more fruits and vegetables on their cafeteria trays has become a welcome rallying cry for Republicans in the weeks before the Nov. 6 election.
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Senate Democrats from states including Minnesota and Pennsylvania are caught between their support for medical-device industries and their party’s reluctance to make major changes to the 2010 health-care law.
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Minnesota’s rest stops and parks must be cleaned after being closed almost three weeks during state government’s shutdown. Equipment must be returned to construction sites. There may be a backlog of hunting license applications. And winners and losers have to be sorted out.
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Seven years before Governor Mark Dayton failed to reach a budget deal with Republicans and Minnesota’s government shut, he closed his U.S. Senate office for almost a month after being warned of a terrorist threat.
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Lawmakers from Boston to Sacramento are racing to cobble together spending plans in at least nine U.S. states with just a week left before the fiscal year begins.
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Democratic Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s talks today with Republican legislative leaders on solving a government shutdown ended without a deal and will resume tomorrow.
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Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to pay $6.7 billion for a 45 percent stake in the U.K.’s Alliance Boots GmbH in an attempt to create a global chain of pharmacies.
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Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and federal prosecutors are close to settling some claims in a government lawsuit accusing the bank of overcharging customers for foreign-exchange trading, according to a court filing.
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Undercover investigations of animal abuse and unsanitary farm conditions would be outlawed in eight states, including Iowa and New York, under an expanding effort by legislators who say the exposes malign livestock industries.
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News Corp. is in talks to hire Gerson Zweifach, a partner with the Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP, as general counsel, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
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