Debt limit vote clears House paving spring budget clash
Republicans pushed through a debt limit extension to May 18 in a bipartisan 285-144 vote. They vow a decades-long deficit reduction plan led by Paul Ryan, aiming to curb Medicare Medicaid and other benefit programs while Democrats warn against delaying a real budget.
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Military Women to Enter Front-Line Roles in Combat
The Defense Department will lift the ban on women serving in front-line units with a 2016 implementation window. The policy overturns the 1994 rule and follows a year after 14 000 new jobs opened to women. About 2 percent of U S battlefield deaths and 280 000 women deployed.
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States rethink mental health cuts after shootings
About 30 states cut mental health funding since 2008 with nine state hospitals closed and 3200 beds eliminated. South Carolina faced the steepest drop near 40 percent, prompting Gov. Nikki Haley to pledge expansion of remote psychiatric access. Kansas and Oklahoma paused or reversed cuts, while lawmakers weigh reforms to avert more jail and safety issues.
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