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Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over the slow handling of claims from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 for up to $80 million.

Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is implementing a 14-day extension of the comment period for its proposed rule to amend regulations executing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which requires most federal contractors and subcontractors to ensure equal employment opportunity for qualified...

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) took to the Senate floor today to voice his opposition to President Obamas health care mandate that he says fails to respect the conscience rights of religious institutions.

Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control.

A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.