ROCKLEDGE, Fla. — The nation’s jobless rate has declined to its lowest level in three years, a fact that has left Jamie Bean, an unemployed air-conditioner repairman, feeling more left out than ever. Bean, 36, lost his job in December. Now he is scrambling to keep up with child-support payments to his wife, who is also unemployed. “As it stands now, I can’t afford to get divorced,” he said, managing a wry smile. Read full article > >

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Unemployment drop still leaves low skill workers behind

The call from the Central Intelligence Agency came on a December afternoon in 2009 while Gary Anderson was skiing with his three children. It’s about your wife, the agency man said. Standing inside Eagle Rock ski lodge in Pennsylvania, Anderson pleaded for details. The CIA official said simply: Where are you? We’ll meet you. Read full article > >

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For CIA family, a deadly suicide bombing leads to painful divisions

Mitt Romney on Tuesday released documents that show he and his wife had an effective federal tax rate in 2010 of 13.9 percent.

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Romney’s Tax Returns Show How Laws Favor the Wealthy

The supporter, Dr. Miriam Adelson, is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich friend and patron who contributed $5 million to the super PAC, Winning Our Future, this month.

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‘Super PAC’ for Gingrich to Get $5 Million Infusion

Dr. Miriam Adelson is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich friend and conservative ally.

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The Caucus: Miriam Adelson Donates $5 Million to a Pro-Gingrich ‘Super PAC’

Philipp M. Hildebrand has been under fire for personal currency trades he and his wife made last year.

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Swiss Central Bank Chief Tenders Surprise Resignation

Diaries that could have helped clear a man convicted of murdering his wife were kept by police for at least 17 years, it is claimed.

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Gilfoyle diaries ‘held by police’

World War I rages and things are getting grim at that fictional, many-roomed North Yorkshire countryside castle known to us all as Downton Abbey: Dashing distant cousin Matthew, the heir apparent, is doing battle in the trenches of the Somme. At home, the Earl of Grantham, his wife, daughters and their loyal staff bravely agree to let the castle become a rehab hospital for wounded British officers. Read full article > >

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Stiff upper lips for ‘Downton Abbey’s’ disappointing return

GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Under the murky waters of the York River, an eerie blur appeared suddenly on Edward Hogge’s sonar, near where his 40-foot deadrise boat sailed about a mile offshore on a cool December morning. Hogge made a hard right turn. “I’m going back to get it,” he said. He called out to his wife and first mate, Cheryl. “All right, honey, get your gloves on. Get ready!” When the boat stopped, she tossed a long rope lined with hooks overboard and yanked it. “It’s got something! It’s heavy,” Cheryl Hogge said. Read full article > >

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‘Ghosts’ haunt creatures on bay’s bottom

Security should be increased inside nightclubs says the wife of a man left with brain damage after an assault in West Yorkshire.

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Wife’s plea for safer nightclubs

Prayers are to be said for the family of a sacked police officer who is thought to have killed his wife and child before taking his own life.

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Prayers for police death family

After a husband admits killing his wife of 50 years who had Alzheimer’s disease, a dementia charity says carers need more support

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Dementia help call after killing

A former police inspector found fatally injured with his wife and six-year-old daughter had been sacked last week, it is confirmed.

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Death family officer just sacked

Until last weekend, the excruciating public spectacle of the humiliated wife standing by her errant politician-husband as he dropped out of the campaign/resigned from office seemed, mercifully, to be on the verge of extinction. Jenny Sanford opted out of the press conference — and the marriage — after her husband, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, found his Argentinian soulmate.  Huma Abedin, the wife of former congressman Anthony Weiner, seems to be sticking it out, but she had the self-respect to take a pass as he confessed to juvenile tweets. Read full article > >

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Gloria Cain, the human political prop

Oh, to have been in the next room when Herman Cain arrived home Friday to talk with his wife, Gloria, about what he called a longtime “friendship” with Ginger White, the Atlanta woman who claims the two had a 13-year affair. “He should come with security,” said Queen Aishah of Bowie, who performs at the Riot Act Comedy Theater in the District. “He should wear a helmet, and he should not speak because he’s said too much already.” Read full article > >

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What should Herman Cain tell his wife? Ask the comedians.