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If you artificially inflate demand for something and don't let supply adjust, prices will go up.

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Inside the dungeon-like basement of alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man repeatedly raped his three victims for a decade, causing one woman to abort five pregnancies by punching her in the gut and requiring ...

The first day of Jodi Arias's sentencing hearing was abruptly postponed today, but no explanation was given.

Cleveland Abductions: A House of Horror, Hidden in Plain Sight

The House GOP is obviously playing along with the corporate-owned spin machine's game of smoke and mirrors. It's largely a frantic attempt by the corporations running our government to steer attention away from the popul...

Nearly six years ago, I, along with Dr. Jason Hwang and my mentor Clayton Christensen, founded Innosight Institute, a non-profit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation.

The following is an excerpt from the new literary cocktails recipe book, Tequila Mockingbird:Cocktails with a Literary Twist: Gentle Drinker: Congrats. You fought through War and Peace, burned through Fahrenheit 451, and...

MEXICO CITY -- The Vatican's culture minister says Mexico's folk Death Saint is a blasphemous symbol that shouldn't be part of any religion. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi says worshipping such an icon is a degeneration of r...

The House convened yet another hearing on Thursday, this time with some of the smartest space people in the country, to check in and see if they've found us a new planet to live on. And we're still a ways away from life ...

Christopher Columbus may get the credit for discovering America, but you, dear reader, have the chance to discover your own galaxy and maybe a brown dwarf or two.

LOS ANGELES -- A California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it broad authority to conceal spending on the contractors that will perform most of its functions, potentially shield...

Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a violent run-up to Saturday's nationwide elections...

BOSTON (AP) -- Justices of Massachusetts' highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether special magistrates who are trying to unburden trial courts of a flood of drug cases tainted by a state laboratory scandal may r...

By Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz and Sunlen Miller Prince Harry arrived in Washington on Thursday, opening an eight-day tour of the United States with a visit to the White House and Capitol Hill, where a large crowd of ador...

A judge set bail at $500,000 for a long-time Spanish language music producer who is accused of inappropriately touching an 11-year-old he was giving voice lessons, authorities said.

After last year's aborted effort, Congress begins anew the effort to reauthorize the federal Food and Farm Bill. Unfortunately, fundamental reform is off the table, as agribusiness dominates in Congress. Family farms fai...

Did the former congressman say anything on a recorded conversation that tied him to the campaign of a man later convicted of campaign-finance violations?

Memorials to victims of drug violence are ubiquitous in Culiacán, but officials are slowly asking families' permission to replace them with discreet marble plaques.

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FBI Didn't Alert Boston Police of Tsarnaev Warning