WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday approved a $149 billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks as Democrats continued efforts to bring down the 9.7 percent unemployment rate before the November congressional elections. The measure, which passed by a vote of 62 to 36, now heads to the House of Representatives, where many Democrats have pushed for more ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For kids who play baseball, a simple stretching exercise can help curb pain and tightness in their throwing arm, according to research presented Wednesday at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons annual meeting in New Orleans. The "sleeper" stretching exercise, which is best performed after a game or practice, involves the player lying on their side ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States posted a record $220.91 billion budget deficit in February, Treasury Department data showed on Wednesday. The February deficit was in line with analysts' consensus forecast in a Reuters poll for a $222 billion budget gap but well above the $193.86 billion for the same period a year ago. The department said the budget ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products. Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, crammed into a small room off the main parliamentary restaurant to hear speeches backing the annual hunt off Canada's ...