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The cost of solar power in North Carolina is falling steeply, a state trade group reported, providing the first real evidence of a trend that is likely occurring in …

Mumbai, India - India’s government on Monday authorized a drug manufacturer to make and sell a generic copy of a patented Bayer cancer drug, saying that Bayer charged a …

For 76 years domestic workers have been excluded from federal labor law—from overtime and safety and health protections in addition to collective bargaining rights. The exclusion was …

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling …

David Koch. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The …

A Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant worker grinds a metal support stand. (Photo: ACWA / Flickr) "When I graduated from Muncie Central High School, you could go …

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, greets the crowd at his election night party in Lafayette, Louisiana, on March 13, 2012. (Photo: Tony …

In today's On the News segment: Only 14 percent of workers around the nation feel “very confident” that they will have enough money for comfortable retirement; the right-wing spin …

Washington - Pentagon officials insisted Monday that the weekend's Afghanistan killing spree was an “isolated incident” and said that a 38-year-old Army staff sergeant would soon be charged in …

Election law scholar Rick Hasen offers a truly stunning visual representation of the impact of Citizens United on our elections: