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America's financial mess and our festering trade crisis were both caused by bad policies that mainstream economics told us were O.K. This has made the public cynical about economists, …

Bullies have been an accepted, if unpleasant, part of childhood for generations. Although anti-bullying laws are increasingly common, and schools often have programs for dealing with bullies, this adolescent …

With confirmed sightings of oil across a 50-mile chain of islands that line Louisiana's Southwestern coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has ordered the affected area closed …

Californians' civil right to be homeless would be given new legal protection under legislation approved Thursday by the Assembly. Basically, the measure would deem violence against homeless people or …

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is coming to Washington next week to meet with President Obama. Afghan government officials have said that their top priority for these talks is to …

Washington - Saying there are new safety concerns raised by last month's explosion of an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department has told Shell …

Nominal wage growth has averaged just 1.1 percent over the last quarter. The Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in April as 805,000 people …

What did May Day bring to Berlin? To believe the boulevard rags, it was to be a day of revolutionary riot, bloody battles with the police and violent standoffs …

San Francisco, California - Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have …

The Pentagon “base budget” request for fiscal year 2011 (beginning on October 1) calls for about $549 billion, an increase of $18 billion over the appropriation for the current …