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Turning a usually routine announcement into a pointed rebuttal of its GOP critics, the Obama administration said Thursday that premiums for popular Medicare Advantage insurance plans will drop for 2012, while enrollment is expected to rise.

President Barack Obama has signed into law an overhaul of the nation's patent system. It's the first significant change in the way inventors can bring their products to market in more than two generations.

Jeopardy champ attempts to revamp health care, while Congress looks to meddle with 401(k)s

The financially troubled Postal Service said Thursday it may close more than 250 mail processing facilities across the country and plans to reduce service standards for first-class mail in an effort to cut costs.

Medicare Advantage premiums will be 4 percent lower in 2012, and enrollment is expected to rise 10 percent, according to an announcement made Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Courting Hispanics while promoting his new jobs plan, President Barack Obama on Wednesday told a black-tie Latino audience that his $447 billion package of tax cuts and public works spending would put more money in the pockets of Latino workers and business owners and increase opportunities for Hispanics.

According to a recent Accountemps survey, 33 percent of chief financial officers report that remote work situations, such as telecommuting and working from satellite offices, have grown at their companies over the last three years.

In five years, the cost to taxpayers for Rhode Island's public retirement system will more than double if nothing is done to curb runaway pension costs.