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Experts caution that gains may be short-lived, especially once mortgage rates normalize.

You can apparently never have enough flat-tax plans in a race for the Republican presidential nomination. So Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday officially introduced his own version. That gives us two flat tax proposals in the GOP race, Perry's and Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan. Actually, Perry's plan is not so much a flat tax as a flatter tax since he maintains deductions and even the current code.

Except for businesses that employ almost exclusively low-paid workers, it won't make economic sense to stop offering health coverage, an independent analysis of the financials factors finds.

The officers were among 12 people arrested on charges that they smuggled firearms, cigarettes and slot machines they thought were stolen, federal authorities said. The arrests stem from an FBI-NYPD internal affairs investigation that began in 2009 after authorities got a tip from a confidential informant.

Federal agents, who have been raiding cornfields and vineyards in the Central Valley in California, are now going after the landlords — threatening to seize buildings where marijuana is sold and farmland where it's grown. The collision between state and federal law is creating confusion and panic among both landowners and medical marijuana users.

With about 7 million Canadians flying to the U.S. a year, the new tax is expected to raise a little more than $100 million a year. Canadians see it as the U.S. asking its neighbor to pay its debts for them.

The flu vaccine has proven itself for most people, but researchers say it needs an overhaul to further reduce infection and death rates. Many doctors would like to see a universal vaccine that protects against all strains of flu.

It's a desperate time for fans of the NBA. Frank Deford provides an alternative entertainment idea for basketball junkies.

President George W. Bush signed the act into law 10 years ago. But in the years since, civil liberties groups have raised concerns about whether the Patriot Act goes too far by scooping up too much data and violating people's rights to privacy.

The Turkish military launched its biggest military operation in a decade after a deadly raid last week by Kurdish militants. The operation comes as politicians begin to debate a new constitution that many hope will grant Turkey's Kurdish population long-sought civil rights.