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The National Vaccine Advisory Committee says government price controls are the primary reason for the decline in the number of suppliers.

If we produce more oil, OPEC will sell less to keep prices high. So Congress should encourage car makers to look for new alternatives.

The late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart on why he was a 'reluctant culture warrior.'

The candidate has recast an old debate in a way that the GOP can use to great effect against Obama.

A denomination founded in a pre-Civil War schism over slavery is poised to elect its first black president.

The world's largest democracy needs economic expansion at a much faster rate.

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Man in Detroit explosive case still not mentally competent

MARQUETTE | A judge has ruled that a Michigan man who authorities say placed an explosive outside a federal building in Detroit last year is still not mentally competent to face the charges.

The Mining Journal of Marquette reports that ...

MAD ISLAND, Texas — Strange things are aloft in the bird world.

Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter. Instead, they pecked around for a short time and flew back. In Nebraska, other cranes never left.

Some ducks just ...

An heir to Saul Alinsky is dead at 43.

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative journalist, Internet pioneer and provocateur who helped reshape the media landscape with tenacious and original political style, died early Thursday after collapsing on the street near his Los Angeles home. He was 43.

His passing was announced through a posting on his extensive online news empire ...

PHOENIX — Armed with a new 10-page report he commissioned, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President Obama released last year is a "computer-generated forgery" — and also raised questions about the authenticity of the president's selective service registration card.

In an extensive — ...

In "Memoirs of an Addicted Brain" a neuroscientist recalls, as the book's subtitle has it, "his former life on drugs," and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior. Sally Satel reviews.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would prohibit state money from being used for sex change surgeries for prison inmates is one step closer to becoming law.

The Senate Corrections and Penology Committee on Thursday approved the bill that now goes to the Senate.

Under current policy, the South ...

Witnesses speak at a hearing on the HHS mandate that requires health insurers to provide contraceptive coverage.

Andrew Breitbart, a well-known conservative blogger, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43.

The California redistricting carnage goes on, with the latest casualty being Republican Rep. David Dreier.

Michael Wolraich says the common enemy of secular humanism unites evangelicals and conservative Catholics in a nontraditional alliance. It might not last.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes.

The interactive exhibit, Habit Heroes, featured animated fitness superheros Will Power and Callie Stenics and super-sized villains Snacker and Lead Bottom, who eat junk ...