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Law officers may be less patient, quicker to use force after combat deployment, study finds:Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home, bringing back heightened survival instincts that may make them quicker to use force and showing less patience toward the people they serve.

ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan : Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

UK banks see surge in bad debts: The level of debts written off because defaulting borrowers will never repay them shot up in 2009, Bank of England figures have shown.

Stranger than fiction: UK: North Tyneside high street 'revived' by fake shop front: Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tynesid

Europe bars Wall Street banks from government bond sales: Leading US banks blamed for triggering financial crisis - Policymakers propose a rival European monetary fund

Unemployment rises in 30 states in January: Five states reported record-high joblessness in January: California, at 12.5 percent; South Carolina, 12.6 percent; Florida, 11.9 percent; North Carolina, 11.1 percent; and Georgia, 10.4 percent.

U.S. Monthly Budget Deficit Balloons to a Record: Even as government receipts posted a rare increase in February, soaring outlays pushed the country's year-to-date deficit up to a record $651.60 billion. The government's fiscal 2010 year-to-date deficit is up 10.5% from fiscal year 2009.

J.P. Morgan: Foreclosure Sales Could Be Higher in Three Years: Efforts to modify loans and delay foreclosures may have helped hold down the stock of foreclosures for sale in the second half of 2009, fostering home-price stabilization. But that cure could require different medicine: an elevated level of foreclosures for sale over the next three years.

U.S. Taxpayers on Hook for $5 Trillion of Fannie, Freddie Debt ... No Matter What Barney Frank Says

Holland proposes giving over-70s the right to die if they 'consider their lives complete': Assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply had enough of life is being considered in Holland. Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who 'consider their lives complete'.