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| After much pushback from unions, big cities like Detroit and Chicago are now making their retired employees get health care on the exchanges or through spouses. |
| According to new Census estimates, most cities continue to record steady population gains. View maps and updated data for hundreds of cities. |
| Painkillers prescribed by both well-intentioned doctors and so-called "criminals in white coats" are driving the overdose epidemic. States and cities are pioneering ways to control it. |
News in Numbers $68 million Amount of money necessary to fix train stations on the French railway network because engineers failed to measure the distance between the tracks and platforms, leaving 341 trains that are too big to fit in the stations. MORE NUMBERS |
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| In response to shortages on execution drugs, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates if it's unable to obtain drugs used for lethal injections. |
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