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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. THOUSANDS RALLY FOR LABOR REFORMS The workers paraded through Dhaka, Bangladesh, to demand safety at work after a garment factory building...

WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan support, the Senate is poised to pass a bill this week that could lead largely to the end of the nation's long online sales tax holiday. The measure would allow states to require that large online retailers...

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WASHINGTON, D.C ���- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., on Wednesday filed several amendments to the Internet sales tax legislation the Senate is considering. The amendments include one Sheehan filed, co-...

The U.S. Department of Labor has selected a Bedford-based construction company to build the state Job Corps Center, which had been at the center of a years-long battle involving state construction unions, nonunion contractors and their political...

Sen. Kelly Ayotte's vote last week against a bipartisan gun control compromise came as no surprise. As New Hampshire attorney general, she opposed gun control measures including renewing the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. She supported the U.S....

New Hampshire State Rep. Stella Tremblay is calling for answers about whether the American government was involved in detonating explosives at the Boston Marathon last week, killing three people and wounding more than 170 others. In an interview with...

(Michael Rosen is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Michael M. Rosen April 23 (Reuters) - The Obama administration announced on Monday that suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would "not be treated as an enemy...

Momentum appears to be building in Congress to allow states to collect taxes from online retailers, closing a loophole that costs Maine tens of millions of dollars and that critics say hurts traditional stores. On Monday, a Senate bill to allow states...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has invited the 20 women elected to the U.S. Senate for dinner at the White House on Tuesday, another chapter in his effort to develop closer ties with Congress. Since March, Obama has taken pains...

An all-star bipartisan cast of current and former U.S. senators and top bureaucrats invoked the memory of the late New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman Monday in urging President Obama and Capitol Hill Republicans to come together for a "grand bargain" to...

President Barack Obama voiced his support for an Internet sales tax, while eBay rallied its millions of users to fight the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used a parliamentary maneuver to bypass the committee process and speed up...