Environment

Katie O'Brien Mowery at her office during work at Network Hardware Resale in Goleta, California, December 1, 2011. (Photo: J. Emilio Flores / The New York Times) …

Eric Schmitt, The New York Times Islamabad, Pakistan - With the United States facing the reality that its broad security partnership with Pakistan is over, American officials are seeking …

Nurses sang sour carols today to the private equity firm they say is starving Massachusetts hospitals and pitting workers against each other. Massachusetts nurses came to the …

There was a time not too long ago when mantles lined with Christmas cards were as ubiquitous as Christmas trees, when birthdays bestowed us with similar arrays, when the …

With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average …

Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! …

During a quick pro-forma session of the House this morning, Republicans rebuffed a Democratic attempt to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday extension, which Republicans …

Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near …

Grover Norquist is fast becoming the man everyone loves to hate – except those who fear him. Norquist, the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, …

(Photo: Zach D. Roberts) “So this bishop, three priests and a comedian are locked up together in this paddy wagon and ... ” "Zach! This …