Obamacare faces another big challenge
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major test of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul that threatens insur...
Now you can enjoy your third daily cup of coffee and feel healthy while you do it: According to a new study, that third cup of joe may be good for your heart.
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WASHINGTON — Former congressman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill today to help kick-start a long-shot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all...
BOSTON — Two dramatically different portraits of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are expected to emerge when prosecutors and Tsarnaev’s lawyers give th...
U.S. helped by low gas prices
WASHINGTON — From the United States to Asia to Europe, a global economy that many had feared was faltering appears poised for a resurgence o...
NEW YORK — The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
For the p...
Ferguson police unfairly targeted blacks
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department report says blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, are disproportionately subject to excessive police fo...
LOS ANGELES — Maxee Maxwell, a member of the 1990s girl group Brownstone — best known for the hit “If You Love Me” — has died after cutting herself in a fall at home, a ...
NEW YORK — Nick Offerman of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” will star as Ignatius Reilly in a stage adaptation of “A Confederacy of Dunces.”
Huntington Theatre Company in ...
Other children placed at risk
CHICAGO — Parents have increasingly pressured doctors to delay vaccines for young children, making their kids and others vulnerable to preve...
