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...
Opposition takes root
WASHINGTON — Over the strong objections of key conservatives and Democrats, House Republican leaders are forging ahead with a health-care plan that ...
It cites CIA surveillance
NEW YORK — Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all.
Documents released by WikiLeaks allege a CIA surveillance progr...
