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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 …

The president allows each woman to decide for herself whether or not to ask her insurance company to cover contraception.

Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism venture, is charging $200,000 a seat for a few minutes of weightlessness and a view from outer space.

The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to …

A true ideologue, Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of todayu2019s Republican Party.