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There's a vintage Bob and Ray radio sketch in which Bob plays “Mr. Science,” a parody of TV's “Mr. Wizard.” He's trying to explain to his young protégé Sandy …

KABUL, Afghanistan—US forces opened a major offensive in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, sending thousands of US Marines and Afghan and British soldiers against a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province. …

The South faces the brunt of another major East Coast snowstorm. If the Florida Panhandle gets an inch or two as expected, then there will be snow in all …

United Nations - In a bid to pressure policymakers to take urgent action to implement a major United Nations treaty on the preservation of plant and animal species, the …

Last week, Dahlia Lithwick had a terrific piece in Slate in which she ponders America's “Terrorism Derangement Syndrome [TDS].” America does seem to be in the grip of morbid …

Editor's note: The US-led offensive in Marjah was launched Friday afternoon. Please see this report for an update. The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major …

The Senate confirmed 27 Obama nominees yesterday after the president threatened to make appointments during the Senate's upcoming recess. On Tuesday, during a bipartisan meeting with Senate Minority Leader …

When Barbara Van Dahlen, a clinical psychologist in the Washington, DC, area, was on vacation in summer 2005, she was reading “Nonprofit Kit for Dummies.” Fast-forward to 2010 and …

When I saw the Afghans in refugee camps in Pakistan in 1992, I couldn’t believe what was happening. I left Afghanistan in 1970 to pursue my education in the …

While the US military continues to aggressively recruit Roman Catholic priests as chaplains, some Catholics question whether the military seeks priests as spiritual guides or as “force-multipliers.” Within the …