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Four ringleaders coached former New York City workers on how to falsely describe symptoms of depression and other mental health problems that allowed them to get payouts high as $500,000, said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (AP File)

Former New York City workers charged in disability scam

January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Officials expected hundreds of people to pack the Seattle City Hall lobby Monday afternoon for the swearing-in ceremony for gay Mayor Ed Murray. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Campaigns

New leaders taking charge at Seattle City Hall

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January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Kathleen Friess gives a presentation on human trafficking in Hamilton Township, N.J., for hotel and nightclub employees and tries to dispel notions of what human trafficking looks like. (AP/Mel Evans)

Crime

New Jersey works to curb sex trafficking before Super Bowl

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January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Kay Hagan wants North Carolina to rejoin the rest of the states whose long-term unemployed residents could again benefit from emergency unemployment benefits should Congress restore them nationwide in the new year. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

North Carolina Democrats want long-term jobless aid revived

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January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Liz Cheney is still a long shot to beat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi in the GOP primary. But she enters the holiday season in a better position with her conservative stance on same-sex marriage being more pronounced. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Campaigns

Reports say Liz Cheney to quit Wyoming Senate bid

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January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Crime

Push for sentencing changes underway in Congress

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January 4, 2014 4:37 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., shown here during a Sept. 18 Judiciary Committee hearing, is fighting back against the NSA's data-collection programs. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Rand Paul says he’s suing over NSA data-collection policies

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January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, shown here in November 2012, said he will focus this year on reducing property taxes for farmers and personal income taxes for families making between $60,000 and $120,000 a year. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska governor preparing ‘united front’ on tax cuts

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January 4, 2014 5:00 am

$Workers are pictured on a drilling rig near Calumet, Okla., in July 2012. Oklahoma is one of several states that have enjoyed a boom in the energy sector driven in large part by new and improved drilling techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which cracks open fissures in rock formations to retrieve oil and gas. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)$

Energy and Environment

Oklahoma speaker wants to continue drilling breaks

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January 4, 2014 5:00 am

In a photo released by Dow AgroSciences, Soybean plants that were grown from soybean seeds genetically engineered to resist a common weed killer are pictured. (AP Photo/Dow AgroSciences)

Energy and Environment

Government might deregulate corn, soybean seeds

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January 4, 2014 5:00 am

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Former New York City workers charged in disability scam

New leaders taking charge at Seattle City Hall

New Jersey works to curb sex trafficking before Super Bowl

North Carolina Democrats want long-term jobless aid revived

Reports say Liz Cheney to quit Wyoming Senate bid

Push for sentencing changes underway in Congress

Rand Paul says he’s suing over NSA data-collection policies

Nebraska governor preparing ‘united front’ on tax cuts

Oklahoma speaker wants to continue drilling breaks

Government might deregulate corn, soybean seeds

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