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Under a federally funded program, Chicago-based CNA Financial Corp. provides insurance coverage to contractors killed or injured while working overseas for the United States. The slain translators were helping …

The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between US officials and a Taliban figure close to leader Mullah Omar seemed to point to …

The prophetic proclamation of the death of God by Friedrich Nietzsche's ‘madman with a lantern’ continues to stir the imaginations of Western society over a century and a half …

Washington - It always gets back to health care. That's why 2009 and 2010 were so consumed by President Obama's push for health care reform, and why …

It’s hardly a secret that rich Saudi Arabians, including those running the government, have used their considerable oil wealth to spread political and ideological influence throughout the world. One …

Is David Coleman Headley telling the truth? That question will continue to hover over a packed courtroom in Chicago this week as the 50-year-old Pakistani-American …

In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, …

(Photo: Jonathan McIntosh) New York - It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime scandals nowadays – whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn or those of former …

We have seen residential housing lose what little steam it had built up. Jobs numbers, due Friday, are likely to show moderation in the pace of new job creation. …