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Two years later, it is becoming clear just how much the ruling has reshaped the American legal landscape.

If traits such as intelligence are reported to be 50 percent heritable, goes the theory, why have no genes associated with intelligence been identified?

Mutual trust still awaits truth-telling about important facts that defined the relationship between the US and Iran ... and that may require breaking a dangerous addiction to secrecy, says …

A one-year delay would be a mortal blow to health reform, with tens of millions of Americans who otherwise would gain coverage instead remaining uninsured, possibly for many years.

Kenyan citizens are paying the price for the backlash of the military invasion in Somalia.

If the whole site blows, ‘boom’ could mean the release of 85 times as much radioactive cesium into the air as was released at Chernobyl. Into the air. Into …

The American exceptionalism sweepstakes really do matter. Here. A lot.

The Air Force has announced that it plans to test another Minuteman III missile in the early morning hours of September 26. Later that same day in New York, …

What rejoicing! What a triumph for Angela Merkel, the East German girl who really made good and often called Angie or even “Mutti” (translated “Mama” or “Mommy”)! All the …

Fast-food and retail workers are showing they've got the guts to try something new, and if the past year is sign of things to come, one of these days …