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On April 1, Japan cedes the highest corporate tax rate to America.

The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, looking to draw attention to the dangers of "huffing" helium, called Thursday for new restrictions on the sale of the gas - as well as a more serious approach in the media to coverage of its misuse.

"Did you know that a ... 6-year-old can ...

In a series of floor speeches Thursday, a group of mostly Democratic women senators made a high-profile and at times emotional appeal to Republicans to support an expanded Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). In doing so, they suggested Republicans were blocking the bill because it would extend its protections to illegal immigrants as well as gays and lesbians.

Controversy is brewing in Arizona as the state Senate considers a bill that would give all businesses the option to exclude contraceptives from health insurance coverage.

Vice President Joe Biden and a new video help ramp up Team Obama's campaign. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.

ALBANY, N.Y. — School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground-beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."

Amid a growing social-media storm over so-called "lean, finely textured beef," the Agriculture Department announced Thursday that starting next fall, schools involved in the national school ...

Partisan rancor, corruption and a scandal involving a dancer called 'Toodles.' Maybe today's politics aren't so unusual after all. Michael Moynihan reviews "Rogues and Redeemers."

Confronted with recent polling suggesting rising gas prices may already be damaging President Obama's political standing ahead of the summer driving season, the president on Thursday reiterated the case that neither he, nor any other politician, has the power to bring down prices in the short term.

Vice President Joe Biden makes a campaign speech saying the GOP will bankrupt the economy again if given the White House

Tolerance and Diversity: America's Achilles Heel 8-4-11

A blistering new report reveals details about the intentional mishandling of evidence and other missteps by Justice Department attorneys in the flawed prosecution of then-Sen. Ted Stevens.

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich discusses why he described himself as "cheerful" in a CNN debate.

Mitt Romney just can't seem to get conservatives to come to the altar and say "I do."

The Justice Department initiated more than 120 cases against human traffickers during 2011 — a record number — in what Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday was a part of the department's commitment to preventing human trafficking, bringing traffickers to justice and assisting their victims.

Mr. Holder, speaking ...

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A corporate engineer was found guilty but mentally ill Thursday in the 2010 shooting death of a father who had just dropped his toddler off at day care in suburban Atlanta.

Hemy Neuman was charged with murder in the death of Russell Sneiderman. Prosecutors and defense ...

The polls and the campaign dialogue aren't much help in assessing the Mormon factor in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The distinct feeling on the ground was that it had an impact.

President Obama discusses rising energy costs at a community college in Largo, Maryland.

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday harshly attacked the economic policies of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, calling them a threat to the American middle class.

A bungled Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens were permeated by the "systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence," in some instances intentionally, that would have independently corroborated his defense and testimony, a court-ordered report said Thursday.

In a blistering 514-page report, Special Counsel Henry F. ...

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Obama administration is poised to deal a major blow to U.S. oil and natural gas, a leading industry group charged Thursday.

Domestic production of both fuels could plummet if proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations, designed to limit emissions from well sites, go into effect ...