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Yeonpyeong, South Korea - On the eve of South Korean live-fire drills that North Korea vows to answer with “merciless strikes,” desperate Yeonpyeong Islanders are fleeing their homes for …

I was, generally speaking, a fairly well-behaved kid. I’ve no reasonable explanation, then, for burning a hole in the wall of the one-room school I attended in the late …

Nearly two years after the Obama administration announced plans to spend $40 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records, government officials are still grappling with how …

Can we compete with China's wages? Does government interference and regulation hold us back? Are our unions keeping us from being competitive? Do we need to lower our standard …

United Nations - Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is …

Washington - The Senate voted 65-31 Saturday to end the Pentagon’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy on gays and lesbians in the military, as President Barack Obama declared “it …

President Obama is invoking his inner Ronald Reagan to push for a new arms control treaty with Russia. Will it work? Possibly, but it’s an uphill sled. On his …

CHICAGO — Traitor. Sellout. Lino (Latino in name only). These are some of the epithets Latino Republicans are called by fellow Hispanics who can't imagine why any self-respecting descendant …

Back in the days of the home-loan boom, loan officers at Ameriquest Mortgage worked hard and played hard. They put in ten- and twelve-hour days punctuated by “Power Hours”—frenzied …

Now that he’s dead, Richard Holbrooke takes up the halo that is the natural prerogative of deceased American public figures. However, there have been few less qualified than he …