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The most heated part of the fight between the Obama administration and religious groups over new rules that require most health plans to cover contraception actually has nothing to do with birth control. It has to do with abortion.

The Karnes County Civil Detention Center in Texas will house mostly low-risk detainees awaiting deportation or facing court. With features like a pharmacy, commissary and soccer field, it's a departure from other Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that critics have called excessively harsh.

Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of giving information to the website WikiLeaks, is expected in court on Tuesday. Manning denies being a spy and recently offered to plead guilty to minor charges. This is just one more oddity in a case some describe as "bizarre."

Congresswoman Susan A. Davis has served the heart of San Diego in Congress since 2000, when she was one of only four Democratic challengers in the nation to defeat a Republican incumbent. Since then, she has consistently won re-election with over two thirds of the vote.

At the heart of the Republican plan is a proposal to give everybody in the program a subsidy to buy private health insurance. Its supporters say it would reduce health care spending. But critics contend it allows the government to spend less on Medicare by making patients pay more — potentially a lot more.

Signature gathering is underway for a measure that would place labeling requirements on food that is genetically engineered. Its supporters are aiming for the November ballot and opposition is already gearing up.

Paying state workers the federal minimum wage wouldn’t do any favors for California’s still-struggling economy. One expert says it would really hurt California’s retailers.

U.S. banks have a lot at stake over in Europe: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America all have billions of dollars invested in troubled European countries, and are feeling the effects of their problems. Experts say that tremors are generally first felt in the banking system, which means what happens to banks can hurt the overall economy.

As President Obama leaves on a 10-day summer vacation, speculation intensifies on what he'll propose in an early September speech to stimulate job creation.

The United States lost close to 6 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009. Now, slowly, some of those jobs are coming back. Over the past three years, the U.S. economy has gained a half-million manufacturing jobs.