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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 …

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 …

America's green czar is counting on big breakthroughs.

The Obama administration has announced changes to its signature foreclosure prevention program, Making Home Affordable. The initial foreclosure relief program unveiled one year ago was supposed to help up …