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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.

More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks and evidence that the job market is still sluggish.

The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.

Social media: the digital water cooler. And what your employees say about you or your company online might be protected speech, as has been shown in some of the headline-making cases that follow.