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DENVER (Reuters) - The judge who will hear the capital murder case against accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes has a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to give states the power to enforce their sales tax laws on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a new series of day...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Eight police officers were hurt and 18 protesters arrested in Seattle on Wednesday when a May Day rally t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it would allow the Plan B One-Step contraceptive...
(Reuters) - Prominent criminal defense lawyer Judy Clarke, who has represented defendants in some of the most high-profile de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Ame...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fox television on Tuesday pulled a recent episode of animated series "Family Guy" from tele...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to overhaul the immigration system would likely be completed by the end of this week, two senio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget p...
LONDON (Reuters) - The global economy is recovering - although the younger you are and the longer you've been out of work...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After two days of Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage, the United States may be left with t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday indicated they could be inclined to strike down a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the second day running, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will confront the issue of gay marriage, he...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight months before President Barack Obama's health care law goes prime time, a confederation of i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans plan to embrace tactics to attract more racial minorities, women, youth and low-income Ame...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit r...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona will argue before the Supreme Court on Monday that it is within its rights to demand voters show ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation easily passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday to avert another partisan budget b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immig...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional commit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage and mak...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday with one eye on the politic...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff,"...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking thro...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Couples wanting to improve their sex lives may want to look at how they divide household chores, because...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American actress Ashley Judd and her Scottish race car driver husband Dario Franchitti are ending the...
DALLAS (Reuters) - Boy Scouts of America is considering ending a longstanding national ban on gay youth and adult members and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will wade cautiously into the debate over U.S. immigration reform on Tuesday, s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradua...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will formally end its ban on women serving in front-line combat roles, officials sai...
(Reuters) - Home visits and doctor's office interventions to prevent child abuse appear to have only limited success, wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican President Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "government is not the solution to our p...
By Gene EmeryNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting the flu vaccine while pregnant does not increase the odds that the fetus wil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiation with Republicans over the most pressing U.S....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is forging ahead on a wide-ranging plan to overhaul the U.S. immigration system...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian and chat show host Rosie O'Donnell on Wednesday announced a new addition to her family, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of FBI background checks required for Americans buying guns set a record in December, as th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans looked ahead on Wednesday toward the next round o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress approved a rare tax increase on Tuesday that will hit the nation's wealthiest ho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
WASHINGTON/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday arguing that s...
Zooey Deschanel is officially single again - her divorce from Ben Gibbard has been finalized.The "New Girl" star fi...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere for Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Django Unchained," a violent spaghett...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Police released the names on Saturday of 26 people shot dead in the massacre at a Connecticu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in Hispanics and Asians is set to dramatically change the face of the United States over the n...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man sued NBC on Thursday, saying the network intentionally edited and repeatedly aired a non-emer...
(Reuters) - The murder/suicide committed on Saturday by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher left the National Fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House report says that if that Congress allows taxes to go up on middle-class families, consum...
By Edith HonanNEW YORK (Reuters) - Voters in Maryland, Maine and Washington state approved same-sex marriage on Tuesday, mark...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets next year to pay for costlier healthcare, more expe...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear arguments on whether colleges and universities can continue to...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping of the daytime talk show "T...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of every seven Los Angeles high schoolers with a cell phone has sent a sexually-explicit ...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Americans on Thursday for patience in rebuilding the weak ...
Bill Murray used his sister's polio battle in the 1950s as inspiration for his portrayal of disabled former President Fra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social networking sites play a modest role in influencing most U.S. users' political views, with t...
Playboy model-turned-reality star Holly Madison is pregnant with her first child.The blonde, who previously dated "Playb...
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the hate crime trial of 16 members of an Ohio Amish splinter g...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has long been a destination of choice for young up-and-comers, but a new population analys...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare has become a top healthcare issue in the U.S. presidential election, surpassing the controver...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two major public health initiatives pushed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a ban on the sale o...
(Reuters) - Multiple people, including law enforcement officers, were shot on Monday when a gunman opened fire near Texas A&M...
Soul legend Stevie Wonder has filed divorce papers to end his 11-year marriage.The "Isn't She Lovely?" icon, re...
(Reuters) - The governing body of U.S. college sports on Monday fined Penn State University $60 million and voided its fo...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Older, more educated U.S. women are much more likely to drink while pregnant, a new federal study release...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Quentin Tarantino unlocked the secrets of his upcoming action flick "Django Unchained&q...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Watching news coverage of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the O.J. Simpson ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Katie Holmes faces two strong adversaries in her legal fight for sole custody of 6-year-old d...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Gibson's estranged stepmother filed for a stay-away order against the actor on Monday claimin...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CNN's Anderson Cooper said in a public statement on Monday that he is gay, adding that while privacy...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Thursday in an election-year t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 health...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the main provision of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants on Monday, reject...
Another adorably creative marriage proposal involving strangers dancing in unison, butwill she say yes?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama's healthcare reform even though they strongly support...
NEW YORK - A fund set up for an upstate New York grandmother has taken in more than $460,000 in just over 48 hours after ...
(Reuters) - Pregnancy rates for U.S. women in their early 20s fell nearly 18 percent from 1990 to 2008 and their abortion rat...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of drugs dispensed to U.S. minors has dropped slightly over the past decade, bucking t...
By Tim GaynorPHOENIX (Reuters) - Undocumented Mexican youths who came to the United States as children reacted with joy to an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will relax enforcement of deportation rules for young people brought to the U...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York City's top health official shot back on Thursday at critics who have blasted the city'...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When given the choice, most people around the world would give up their cellphone rather than their comp...
Muse is releasing their newest album, "The 2nd Law" in September. If you don't want to wait until fall check ou...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election on ...
The temptation to jump into the pool is strong during the summer months - but you might want to think twice before doing so.A...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cost of healthcare services is expected to rise 7.5 percent in 2013, more than three times the pro...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An obese person isn't inevitably at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, a new...
Actor Jim Parsons has been outed in a New York Times profile piece.The Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning "The Big Bang...
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former Rutgers University student was sentenced on Monday to 30 days in prison for a ...
It looks like this little boy never got the memo that girls have cooties.He wants a hug, regardless of how the little girl fe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry.The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyter...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called his endorsement of same-sex marriage a "logical extension" of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of "evolving" on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes...
Cinco de Mayo isn't known for it's surprises but that didn't stop Ellen DeGeneres from giving her audience member...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday will fire their first shots of the next deficit-...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better suppo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative justices who hold a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to endorse Arizona's ...
(Reuters) - Actor Noah Wyle was arrested at a healthcare protest in Washington, D.C. on Monday, following in the footsteps of...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday it now spends as much effort and resources on surv...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realizatio...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Giving an AIDS-fighting drug to men who are at high risk of HIV infection would cost billions, but it mig...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has narrowed to 4 percentage points from 11 points ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People worldwide are living three years longer than expected on average, pushing up the costs of aging...
By David SchwartzPHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona state lawmakers gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would ...
This man was asked to create a video for Nike about what it means to "make it count." He spent his entire budget tr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up t...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has identified a new batch of counterfeit cancer drugs d...
(Reuters) - Comedy show "The Colbert Report" won a prestigious Peabody Award on Wednesday for its segments on Super...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that social and communication skills in some kids with autism may improve ov...
Justin Bieber's newest single has been released. Love it or hate it?
By James Vicini and Joan BiskupicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top courtroom lawyer made an impassion...
By James Vicini and Joan BiskupicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul will be ...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided along ideological lin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parents of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin are due to attend a U.S. congressional forum in Washi...
Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian has quit as a spokesperson for animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Anima...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared prepared to decide the fate...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare overhaul, the Supreme Court on Mon...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 21-year-old son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has pleaded no contest to a charge of domestic vio...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. families with autistic children earn nearly $18,000 less than parents of normally develo...
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A jury convicted Dharun Ravi of hate crimes on Friday after he used a computer webcam t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new documentary film about bullying set for theaters this month could come out unrated after objecti...
DOUGLAS, Ariz (Reuters) - A highly specialized U.S. military task force is using battlefield technology to help federal polic...
MILAN (Reuters) - The first complete genome-sequencing of "Otzi," Italy's prehistoric iceman, is revealing a we...
Ashton Kutcher joined the fight against crime on Thursday as he shadowed federal agents conducting raids in California.The ac...
PORTSMOUTH, Va (Reuters) - Virginia's Republican governor is poised to sign a law forcing women to have an ultrasound bef...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican challenge to President Barack Obama's policy on contr...
Longtime bachelor George Clooney refuses to be insulted by rumours about his sexuality because he insists there's no sham...
(Reuters) - If you knew you would be around to blow out the candles at your 100th birthday party, would that change how you m...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viola Davis knew she had big shoes to fill when she agreed to play the role of a lowly black maid to ...
Emma Watson was forced to defend her sexuality after chopping off her long locks - because reporters assumed her new look was...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Friday passed legislation extending a tax cut for 160 million workers and long-term jobl...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Frid...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibil...
Lindsay Lohan's estranged dad was taken to hospital on Friday after suffering chest pains.Michael Lohan is currently unde...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Demi Moore is seeking professional help to treat "exhaustion" and "overall hea...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of kids and adults in the United States who are obese has held steady over the last fe...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Work It," the cross-dressing comedy despised by critics and transgender activists, has bee...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 10 percent of parents around the world say their child has been cyberbullied and nearly one-fo...
(Reuters) - Americans believe that there is more conflict between rich and poor than between immigrants and the native-born o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment an...
By Alina SelyukhWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controve...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British comedian and actor Russell Brand called it quits on his 14-month marriage to "Teenage Dr...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - People magazine said on Tuesday that a cover apparently featuring "Twilight" actor Taylor L...
By Amy NortonNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potential...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
The Hobbit director Peter Jackson is offering a fan the chance to visit the set of the movie in New Zealand to raise money fo...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Close to one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23, suggests a new study that fi...
(Reuters) - Financial advisers in the United States are seeing fewer benefits from their use of social media, a survey by Ait...
(Reuters) - The quarterback of bowl-bound Penn State was taken to hospital after a locker room fight with a teammate, said th...
(Reuters) - A record low of 51 percent of U.S. adults are married, and Americans are waiting longer than ever to tie the knot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday said it will rule for the first time on one of several tough, new state im...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott, who supports drug testing for state employees and welfare appli...
OSAWATOMIE, Kansas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama blasted his Republican foes and Wall Street on Tuesday as he portrayed ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a poor showing among female voters in the 2008 presidential election, the Republican Party might...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Obama's aides have persistently tried to paint Republicans as the party of the rich, with mi...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A new accuser filed the first lawsuit against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of families collecting cash welfare benefits rose during the longest and deepest economic d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost U.S. efforts to fight AIDS with a new target of providing treatm...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told a South Carolina town hall on Monda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday defeated competing payroll tax cut extension plans by Democrats and Republicans...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama struck an optimistic note on Wednesday night that lawmakers in Congress could rea...
Usher's ex-wife wants to take away his kids, saying he has repeatedly blown off his legal obligations as a co-parent, accordi...
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich finally reached front-runner status this week after a long climb and may now ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of all Americans lack economic security, meaning they live above the federal poverty thres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks in the Congress were locked in stalemate on Wednesday amid the disclosure of a Democratic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich now leads the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination ...
(Reuters) - The ranks of the nation's oldest residents are growing quickly now that people who reach age 90 are expected to l...
STATE COLLEGE (Reuters) - Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach charged with child sex ab...
"Glee" star Lauren Potter has been appointed to serve on President Obama's Committee for People With Intellectual D...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with...
COLUMBUS (Reuters) - Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a law limiting the collective bargaining rights of public workers in a m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One year before voters decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama to a second term, a majority ...
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Ex-bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop was found guilty on Monday of marrying a 12-year-old girl to p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living in poverty reached a record 49.1 million in 2010, according to a new br...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at anti-greed Occupy Wall Street activists on Thursday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The problem of poverty became more acute in many U.S. neighborhoods in the Midwest and South over the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited from Britain to Sweden to face questioning over all...
(Reuters) - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iow...
(Reuters) - Americans' opinion of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the la...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chaz Bono may have been booted off "Dancing With the Stars" this week, but he will be back ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing inco...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry on Tuesday placed his hopes for a comeback in the U.S. presidentia...
BAGHPAT, India (Reuters) - The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challeng...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscori...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longes...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Law and Order: SVU" actress Mariska Hargitay and her husband have adopted a baby boy just ...
(Reuters) - Half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana use, a record level, amid growing support for decriminalizatio...
(Reuters) - More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, a class of drugs that has become wildly...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social Security retirement benefits for about 55 million people will go up by 3.6 percent next year, t...
(Reuters) - Bond was set at $2.5 million each on Monday for the three people accused of locking four mentally disabled ad...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged on Sunday his "9-9-9" tax reform ...
Kelsey Grammer has spoken out about his shattered marriage to ex-wife Camille in an explosive new TV tell-all, insisting he f...
MILFORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, a former venture capitalist who is the Republican presidential front-runner, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with prom...
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students ac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare supplemental health plans, popular among politically powerful retirees, could come under the ...
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown, saying "no" to the organized labor groups that ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than a quarter of wealthy Americans support raising taxes on households making $250,000 or mo...
(Reuters) Speculation that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will enter the presidential race has led to a feverish debate a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain is on a roll, the latest hot commodity in a constantly shifting 2012 Republican presidenti...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans fighting for the presidential nomination are slamming frontrunner Rick Perry over illegal ...
(Reuters) - Republican Representative Paul Ryan, an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, propose...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty rates increased in almost all U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the course of the ...
The cost of health insurance continues to climb for companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Senator Charles Schumer urged quick action to raise taxes on the rich -- people like billionaire ...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry took heavy fire from his rivals over a Texas policy that aids illegal immi...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry leads rival Mitt Romney in Florida, where the Republican presidential ...
JACKSON, Georgia (Reuters) - The state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew int...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry ramped up his criticism of presidential rival Mitt Romney on Friday, descr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for $3 trillion in new government savings, through a mix of tax incr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid out a $3.6 trillion plan on Monday to cut budget deficits partly by ra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a plan on Monday to cut the U.S. deficit, striking a populist tone...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not recommend changes to the government's Social Security retirement progr...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Concern about the economy has pushed President Barack Obama's approval rating below 50 percent in C...
COLUMBUS, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Republican lawmakers on Wednesday against delaying action...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will double the money it spends with women-owned businesses, train women around the w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the gover...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces deep skepticism from swing voters who see the Republican party as more in...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly is expected to take the first steps on M...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Russell Armstrong, the husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are sharply divided on issues from race to religion, often along generational and partisan l...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cher has slammed the "stupid bigots" who have attacked the casting of her transgender son C...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of two women journalists whose bodies were found in ...
PASADENA, Calif (Reuters) - Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment decla...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A re-edited version of reality TV show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" will premiere...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was in critical condition on Monday after he was hospitalized f...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend on Friday settled a deeply bitter custody dispute over their young d...
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Cleveland Indians will lose Michael Brantley for the rest of the season after it was announced Sund...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disasters at a coal mine in West Virginia and aboard an oil rig operated by British Petroleum in the G...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a U.S. federal voting rights law governing how the state ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that runs government health insurance is launching a program that would bundle insuran...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Unintended pregnancies, which make up nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States, are increasing...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chely Wright, the first mainstream country performer to come out as lesbian, married her partner, act...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - All Star closer Brian Wilson was put on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation on Sunday,...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox suffered a setback in their battle for top spot in the American League East on Thursday...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A Louisiana man decapitated his disabled 7-year-old son and placed the boy's head near the street so ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans named their six members Wednesday to a congressional deficit-reduction super committee, in...
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron, grappling with what could prove a defining crisis of his premiership, told p...
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland jury on Wednesday recommended that convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell be sentenced to d...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Nearly 250 new immigration laws and resolutions were enacted in 40 states during the first half of ...
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, was sentenced to life in pri...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - MTV on Thursday said it has added a new category highlighting social activism to its popular Video Mu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Medicare at the top of lawmakers' fall agenda, Tea Party movement leaders hope to ignite support ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday sued to block enforcement of Alabama's new immigration law, widely ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier was arrested after police found him in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, with p...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs threw his sexual assault trial into disarray on Thursday when he fired...
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