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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to ask Congress for more money to meet veterans’ health care expenses after disclosing last week a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall in the program. Even before the announcement by Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson (search), the Senate scheduled a vote Wednesday on …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An armored car company’s offices were broken into, raising security fears, but the company said an inventory eventually showed nothing was taken. A police report had said an unknown number of armored car uniform shirts and pants, along with gun belts and holsters, were taken in a …

NEW YORK – U.S. consumers and corporations can cope with higher oil prices as long as crude prices stay clear of volatility, market strategists say. In inflation-adjusted terms, oil prices remain well-below the roughly $90-a-barrel peak hit in the 1980s, according to calculations by the International Energy Agency (search). “Oil …