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A US company is fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found...
Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a 'measure of good news'
WASHINGTON -- The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected...
Slain nurse's husband sues health care company, alleging it ignored employees' safety concerns
The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday,...
One natural gas transport plan killed in New Jersey as another forges ahead
KEYPORT, N.J. -- A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has...
Call it Cognac diplomacy. France offered China’s Xi a special drink, in a wink at their trade spat
China's President Xi Jinping presents books by French authors produced in China to French President Emmanuel Macron, right, during a gifts exchange at...
John Swinney expected to lead Scotland after taking the helm of the Scottish National Party
LONDON -- Scotland's former deputy first minister was poised to become its third leader in just over a year after taking the helm...