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BOSTON – Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require that all its citizens have some form of health insurance. The plan — approved just 24 hours after the final details were released — would use a combination of financial incentives and penalties …

ASBURY PARK, N.J. – Bruce Springsteen, rock ‘n’ roll icon, stands on a cramped Jersey shore stage surrounded by 16 musicians. There’s a fiddle, a banjo, a tuba, an accordion — and not a single electric guitar. The music swells, a glorious noise, as Springsteen leans into the microphone and …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Spurred on by the deaths of 14 miners in West Virginia alone since the beginning of the year, federal, labor and state officials are pledging to make conditions safer for workers toiling underground in the nation’s vast coal mines. One day after the bodies of two missing …