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Republicans think of Democrats as lazy people, dependent on government services. Yet, the problem is more about the growing ill health in this country.

BEIJING (AP) -- Air pollution readings in China's notoriously polluted capital were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day Saturday, with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to st...

(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency on Saturday, giving pharmacists permission to administer flu vaccinations to more people as officials seek to stem the worst flu outbreak in t...

Mark Halsey will be "embarrassed" when he sees a replay of the penalty he gave against Aston Villa, Paul Lambert says.

On the third anniversary of Haiti's devastating earthquake, President Michel Martelly says reconstruction programmes have failed.

The Obama administration ended speculation Saturday that it would mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin as a way to avoid the debt ceiling.

I realise that this idea has absolutely no chance at all of actually being enacted but I think it a sensible one all the same. Indeed, the sensibility of it being why it would never be enacted. Quite simply we should cha...

PASADENA, Calif. -- CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler says the network is sensitive to concerns about violence following the Connecticut school shooting, and that everything it puts on the air is appropriate. The netw...

US National Climate Assessment reveals that severe weather disruption is going to be commonplace in coming years Global warming is already having a major impact on life in America, a report by US government scientists ha...

Tory and Labour grandees to make joint plea as new group is set to urge close EU ties and fight growing isolationist tide Tory grandee Ken Clarke is joining forces with Labour peer Lord Mandelson in a historic cross-part...

Company and porn stars Kayden Kross and Logan Pierce say voter-approved rule infringes first amendment rights A leading adult film producer has launched a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over a voter-approved measure ...

San Francisco residents are mourning the passing of Vivian Brown, who along with her twin sister, became a local celebrity by walking through the city's streets in matching high-end outfits, identical hairdos and cheerfu...

Trindon Holliday gave the Denver Broncos an early 7-0 lead over the Baltimore Ravens before Peyton Manning even touched the ball. After the Denver defense forced Baltimore to punt on its first possession, Holliday fielde...

When it comes to the Most Important Political Topic Of Our Times™--namely the possible minting of a $1 trillion platinum coin--Ezra Klein advances the ball today. The idea behind this slow-news-week chimera is that the...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- C.J. Leslie and Richard Howell wanted this moment, the chance to help No. 20 North Carolina State make a big step forward after a bumpy start to a season filled with potential. Now, after a rousing perfo...

Chelsea's worrying mini-slump came to an end on Saturday, but it was not new signing Demba Ba or $80 million man Fernando Torres who fired the London club back up to third in the English Premier League.

Sin City just got hotter!

The second Death Star under construction in Return of the Jedi (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Whew. We just dodged a $852 quadrillion bullet. The White House has posted a response (yes, it's real) on its web site to a petitio...

Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, hangs himself at the age of 26.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from the Obama administration obtained by the Huffington Post on Saturday....

Flowers Food has emerged as the stalking-horse bidder.

I take this to be really a very strange decision by Apple. I know that what gets onto an iPhone is strictly controlled by the company, they decide and only they decide what can be sold or even distributed for free throug...