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From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies. The 2,000-page health care bill that became law …

Political sages turn today's polling and past voter behavior into confident predictions about upcoming elections. That's their job. But fortune-tellers may do nearly as well, especially when the vote …

This past weekend, President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan, during which he doffed his civilian coat and tie and donned a “Commander-in-chief” leather flight jacket provided to …

Washington - Now that the health care overhaul has passed Congress, Democratic lawmakers are hoping to highlight its most immediate benefits. Chief among them: a plan to help millions …

Montpellier, France - After the failures in Copenhagen to agree on a new climate protection treaty, and more recently at the Doha meetings on trade in endangered species to …

Pennsylvania is the only state to permit live pigeon shoots. A Pennsylvania district attorney accepted campaign funds from an organization that promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then …

Chicago - Statement from the Cancer Prevention Coalition: “The NCI has become what amounts to a government pharmaceutical company.” Last Wednesday, the White House nominated Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus …

Washington - The arrests of members of a Michigan-based “Christian” militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism — and potential …

I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. Maybe that's the foolish optimist in me, but I want to …

President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to …