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A battle between lawmakers and labor unions is brewing in unlikely territory. The overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts House agreed to weaken municipal employees' ability to bargain over health care. Gov. Deval Patrick (D) distanced the bill from more severe anti-union efforts in other states.

Hundreds of classified documents from the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo provide a look at how military officials determined whom they had in custody and whether they might have ties to terrorism. Interrogators were trained to look for subtle clues — among them, a Casio F-91W watch, said to be the favored timepiece of al-Qaida bomb-makers.

Classical music news from points all over, from Philadelphia to Johannesburg to London.

Natural disasters are no respecters of political parties or any of the other numerous ways humans use to separate themselves from each other. That seems to get largely ignored until calamities strike. Then, state officials who usually pan feds as intrusive welcome help from Washington.

The boy brought a loaded 9mm pistol to his third-grade class and sold it to a classmate for $3.

More questions for the panel: Haley's Donut; The Artful Dodger Barber; The Root of Embarrassment.

The Irish composer is reshaping our ideas about his homeland's culture, via works that reference everything from traditional folk tunes sung in Gaelic to the poetry of Yeats.

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Our panelists tell three stories of unwanted government intervention, only one of which is true.

In her new novel, In Zanesville, writer Jo Anne Beard tells the story of two 9th grade girls, struggling to deal with life in a small town and pressure from the 'popular kids.'