Several drugs added to list
If you use prescription painkillers or designer drugs, it’s about to get much tougher for you to join the military.
The Pentagon plans to qui...
Committees pass measure
WASHINGTON — Women seeking abortions and some basic health services, including prenatal care, contraception and cancer screenings, would face rest...
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi universities that refuse to fly the Confederate-themed state flag could lose proposed tax breaks, the latest twist in a long battle over a s...
WASHINGTON — Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on w...
GOP seeks end to tax penalty
WASHINGTON — House Republicans scored a pre-dawn triumph today in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama’s health care overhau...
IRS closes loopholes
WASHINGTON — The IRS strikes back: The tax agency reports that the number of identity theft victims plummeted last year after agents struggled for ye...
WASHINGTON — If China was hoping for a concession from the U.S. after recently suspending coal imports from cash-poor North Korea, it got the opposite.
The U.S. is start...
Leader of Marines upset by scandal
WASHINGTON — The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps condemned the use of a secret Facebook page by some Marines to share nude pho...
Casino excursion turns deadly in Biloxi, Miss.
BILOXI, Miss. — A freight train crashed into a bus full of Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos, killing four in Bilo...
CHICAGO — Gorging on bacon, skimping on nuts? These are among food habits that new research links with deaths from heart disease, strokes and diabetes.
Overeating or no...
