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Turning off the lights on Minnesota's state government isn't a money-saver. In fact, the state's six-day-old shutdown over state spending is costing it millions of dollars — a toll that will only rise the longer it lasts.

Opponents of the new federal health care overhaul are one step closer to having voters in the political bellwether of Ohio decide whether the state constitution should be amended to keep people from being required to buy health insurance or face penalties.

Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Wednesday that G. Mike Mikan, the CEO of its Optum health service business, is leaving the company to lead a private equity fund.

Partisan bickering over New Jersey's $29.7 billion state budget resumed Tuesday, with fresh charges that Gov. Chris Christie used his veto pen to punish political foes and the governor's office condemning the Senate leader for "inappropriate and disrespectful" comments aimed at Christie.

President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweeping long-term deal within two weeks to raise the nation's borrowing limit rather than "kick the can down the road" with a makeshift, short-term solution to stave off a first-ever U.S. default. And he declared the agreement must include the tax...

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