resident Barack Obama and likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney are in a dead heat over jobs and the economy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.... Read more»
A congressman’s Web video goes too far when it portrays a program that subsidizes cell phone service for very low-income persons as a government giveaway that is costing taxpayers billions.... Read more»
Existing home sales in April rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years. Analysts said the numbers was positive, though it did not signal the end of the country’s economic woes.... Read more»
El Salvador’s vicious gangs have called a cease-fire, enticed in part by conjugal visits for incarcerated leaders. Salvadorans are skeptical it will last.... Read more»
The federal energy loan program that has created headaches for President Barack Obama has a Mitt Romney connection.... Read more»
More Arizonans were killed in firearms-related incidents in 2009 than in motor vehicle crashes, a new study said. While 809 people died in vehicle crashes, there were 856 gun deaths, a state-by-state analysis showed. A local gun-rights activist dismissed the call for more gun control: “You want them to be dangerous or they’re no damn good.”... Read more»1
Tower climbing, an obscure field with no more than 10,000 workers, has a death rate roughly 10 times that of construction.... Read more»
An independent panel of American public health officials has said doctors should no longer use the PSA test to screen for prostate cancer in healthy men, amid concerns the risks of performing the test outweigh its benefits.... Read more»
Safety and environmental advocates say the Obama administration is sacrificing public health protections to blunt conservative attacks on government regulation. While it is common for candidates to move to the middle before an election, the shift has dismayed Obama supporters who had counted on a push for a raft of progressive reforms.... Read more»
President Obama and Chancellor Merkel have a bit of fun at the expense of Prime Minister Cameron.... Read more»
Just 20 years after the species was discovered (that’s how elusive they are), wildlife experts say the population of the saola, known as the ‘Asian unicorn,’ may be facing extinction.... Read more»
The University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law on Monday released the first national registry of exoneration cases with data on more than 2,000 cases from the last 23 years.... Read more»
A new study said that pollution causes thunderclouds to spread and trap more heat from high in the atmosphere, and that heat drives temperatures up in the climate worsening global warming.... Read more»
The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee outraised Romney and the Republican National Committee by a nearly 2-1 margin in April.... Read more»
Higher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers and other providers drove up health care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn– even as patients consumed less medical care overall.... Read more»
Daniel Elizondo, a leader of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico, was arrested in connection to the killings of 49 people whose decapitated and dismembered corpses were found dumped next to a highway last week.... Read more»
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