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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new crime-fighting system developed with Microsoft.

Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our society, or do …

In a little noted speech to his constituents in May, Paul Ryan decried the u201ccrony capitalismu201d that he said, prompted the big bank bail-outs of 2008 (though he himself …

President Barack Obama on Monday offered a vivid reminder of why being a White House incumbent has big advantages when seeking re-election, as he toured drought-ravaged Iowa promising help …

With Mitt Romneyu2019s selection of Representative Paul D. Ryan as his running mate, Florida quickly emerged on Monday as a critical test of the nationwide Republican gamble that concerns …

After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the issue of torture that rests …

New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries u2013 including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique u2013 raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings …

This November, Californians will vote for or against Prop 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.

This crisis is not going away. Officially begun late in 2007, nearly five years later, no end is in sight.

For the uninitiated, it is almost too fantastic to believe. A police department's union, supremely tone-deaf in a city with a discriminatory history, puts out a newsletter that open-heartedly …