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Congress, ravenous for revenues to fund Obamacare, included in the health care legislation a 2.3 percent tax on gross revenues -- which generally amounts to about a 15 percent tax on most manufacturers' profits.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas of Pakistan killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, Pakistani officials said as the U.S. pushes ahead with its drone campaign in the face of Pakistani demands to stop....

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas of Pakistan killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, Pakistani officials said. It was sixth such strike in two weeks as the U.S. pushes ahead with its drone campaign in the face of Pakistani demands to stop....

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to paint it....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing five policemen, a government official said....

The health secretary defends the decision not to publish the risk assessment of the NHS overhaul as Labour's Andy Burnham accuses the government of a "cover-up".

Vidal Sassoon, the genius who turned hairdressing into an art

Two children - a boy aged 10 weeks and a girl aged 14 months - are found dead at a house in south-west London.

The Bank of England continues to hold UK interest rates at 0.5% and is not extending its programme to boost the economy by buying government bonds.

The result of a Glasgow council ward could be in doubt after it emerged that a ballot box was not counted.

In an election year that some pundits have predicted will be focused on jobs and the economy, social issues like same-sex marriage have stolen the spotlight a surprising number of times. But experts say don't expect those hot-button topics to be the ultimate markers of the 2012 cycle.

To apply a Davis good faith exception to an officer’s interpretation of the statute, it has to be correct and in accord with existing case law that thereafter changed. If the officer is wrong on application of the statute, that’s a mistake of law and any good faith exception would not apply. United States v. Gore, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64784 (D. S.C. May 9, 2012).*

Officers approached defendant outside a store and got her ID to run a “local check” finding no warrants. They let her go but watched her walk and then decided to encounter her again, having her back against a wall and officers to both sides. A reasonable person would not have felt free to leave, and this was a Terry stop without justification. Defendant had the burden of showing that this was a seizure, and she satisfied it. State v. Young, 2012 Wash. App. LEXIS 1015 (May 1, 2012).*

Education secretary Michael Gove attacks an English culture which says poverty seals poor children's destiny.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin will skip a planned visit to the United States this month for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the Kremlin confirmed Thursday, as he faced pressure from protests and opposition criticism at home....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek power-sharing talks entered a third and final round Thursday, as parties in the crisis-hit country struggled to hammer out a coalition deal after general elections produced no outright winner....

Gina Trapani says the technology companies that promote a culture of frat house fun will lose out in attracting the smartest people

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday led Justice Department tributes to former presidential adviser and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who died at 90.

24 hours of news photos: 10 May 2012

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Vikings' hopes of a new stadium are one affirmative vote away from becoming reality....

The last remaining stretch of Newport's old Town Dock is to be redeveloped in the latest stage of the city's multimillion-pound regeneration.