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Talks to end the NFL lockout will resume with the court-appointed mediator in New York on Monday and could continue through Thursday, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

Congressional Republicans are rallying behind a long-shot bid for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.

Until recently, the Minneapolis-based discounter largely had avoided the labor disputes and public relations challenges that have plagued Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. But now Target could face the same union opposition as its much bigger rival.

In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.

Even millennials are rethinking their allegiance to President Barack Obama due to dismal economic progress.

Negotiations between the state and unions representing government workers are heating up over the state's demand that employees chip in part of their health care premiums.