WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama's health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2½ years, when they'll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance.

Mesa has halted the sometimes murky way it has awarded certain contracts over the decades, involving millions of dollars a year that the City Council had no control over.

Mesa has halted the sometimes murky way it has awarded certain contracts over the decades, involving millions of dollars a year that the City Council had no control over.

Mesa has halted the sometimes murky way it has awarded certain contracts over the decades, involving millions of dollars a year that the City Council had no control over.

NEW YORK -- Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

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Out on Phoenix’s suburban fringes, where cement mixers are fast colonizing what’s left of the hay and cotton fields, the day is winding to a close. The home hour has arrived.

SAN FRANCISCO - In just seven years, Google Inc. has morphed from a bare-bones online search engine into a technological octopus that seems to sprout another intriguing tentacle every other week.