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As the clock ticks toward a late-week House vote promised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), Democrats consider the possibility of passing the Senate version of the health care bill …

Mexico President Felipe Calderón got an earful from angry residents Tuesday while visiting Cuidad Juarez to tout new social programs aimed easing the rampant drug violence that plagues the …

Washington - The number of sexual assaults reported in the U.S. military rose 11 percent last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday, but Pentagon officials conceded that they still …

It read like just another obituary written about someone who'd lived a very long time: “Doris Haddock died peacefully in her family home,” it began. "Born in 1910, she …

In 2008, the Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, ruled that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay had the right to challenge the basis for their detention. That decision - a …

Friends, It was amazing. Every story on the front page of Monday's New York Times told the story of the Age of Greed during which a system known as …

Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) unveiled his latest financial reform proposal on Monday, and the stakes for the new legislation couldn't be higher. After consumer groups raised a …

The Obama administration does not expect to capture Osama Bin Laden alive. Attorney General Eric Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the possibility of catching the …

If you haven’t already watched it, Marketplace has a great video explaining Repo 105, a shady accounting maneuver through which Lehman Brothers hid its financial troubles for so long …

BAGHDAD — Iraq's embattled election commission announced Tuesday that 79 percent of the votes from parliamentary elections have been counted, a breakthrough for a process so slow that it's …