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Illinois businesses would save about $500 million but give up on their biggest demand under a worker's compensation overhaul that key lawmakers called a tentative deal Thursday.

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Wisconsin's law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers was struck down Thursday by a circuit court judge but the ruling will not be the final say in the union fight that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol earlier this year.

Medicaid payments to hospitals and health care providers in Oregon will be cut starting July 1 under a plan released Wednesday by lawmakers.

Jubilant Democrats demanded Republicans abandon their sweeping plans to remake Medicare on Wednesday after casting a House race in upstate New York as a referendum on the popular program and emerging victorious.

Women still outlive men, but the gender gap among U.S. seniors is narrowing.