At Cook County Jail, an estimated one in three inmates has some form of mental illness. At least 400,000 inmates currently behind bars in the United States suffer from some type of mental illness—a population larger than the cities of Cleveland, New Orleans, or St. Louis—according to the National Alliance

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©2015 Bloomberg News NZ69A16S9729 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton spent months laughing at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign but said Thursday that he’s crossed the line with his plans to bar Muslims from entering the United States. “I no longer think he’s funny,” the Democratic front-runner said during an interview with NBC’s

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ6AHO6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Oil headed for the biggest weekly decline since March amid speculation OPEC’s decision to effectively scrap production targets will keep the market oversupplied. Futures fell as much as 0.9 percent in New York and have dropped 8.8 percent this week. Prices are down for

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ3RLI6K50XV (Bloomberg) — As commodity prices tumble to the lowest since the global financial crisis, the dividends paid by the world’s largest oil producers and miners look increasingly hard to justify. Take the world’s largest 500 companies by sales. Of the 20 expected to pay the highest

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ458J6K50YA (Bloomberg) — Congressional negotiators are pushing toward a deal to make permanent a series of expired tax breaks for businesses and individuals, a step lawmakers hope would speed parallel talks on a must-pass $1.1 trillion government spending bill. House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers filed a stopgap

©2015 Bloomberg View NZ47LI6JIJV6 (Bloomberg) — Democrats in Congress are putting a high price on lifting the 40-year-old U.S. ban on crude oil exports. “At the top of the list is a long extension” of wind and solar tax breaks, Senator Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday. The tax

©2015 Bloomberg View NZ27YD6KLVR6 (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump wins again. Oh, he’s still not going to be president. His new offensive — coming out for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration and travel to the U.S. — won’t get him any closer to taking over the White

 @2015 Bloomberg News NZ28AX6VDKHT (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. will scrap its long-planned spinoff of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., CNBC reported, a response to mounting pressure from investors who have grown tired of waiting for a turnaround in the Web portal’s main businesses. The Sunnyvale, California-based company will instead

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NZ27F36JIJUX (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks fell for a fifth day, led by raw-material and energy producers, as crude prices plunged to the lowest since 2009 and Chinese trade data underscored concern that global growth is slowing. The Bloomberg Gulf Cooperation Council 200 Index tracking companies in the