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Federal and state governments are missing a great opportunity to use the stimulus to aid the poor and minority communities hardest hit by the Great Recession

With all-you-can-eat and sometimes all-you-can-drink specials, more Americans are heading to restaurants for this mid-morning meal

For Churches, Beefed-Up Security Is a Mixed Blessing

Fat Fees and Smoker Surcharges: Tough-Love Health Incentives

A combination of budget crises and the recession spark protests in GoldenState. But the problem plagues other public universities too

Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents down for a soft landing

How Obama's lawyer sparked a battle royal when he tried to keep some of the President's campaign promises in the war on terrorism

Nobody, not even Oprah herself, knows what kind of a creature the post-network-show Oprah will be

White House plans for terror suspects currently in detention are likely to outrage liberals and conservatives

There can be something thrilling about accountability, so it was nice to see a federal judge declare the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directly responsible for the destruction of most of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina

With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hoursaway, the White House dispatched a platoon of top strategists

Electric cars will soon swarm onto America's roads, but the charging infrastructure for those vehicles is still on the drawing boards

America loves a story of redemption. But former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's constant excess, and his view that somehow he is above the law, makes absolution a difficult sell

Soldiers who studied with accused killer Nidal Malik Hasan claim that he gave clear signals of sympathy for America's enemies

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke wanted Kristen Stewart for the role from the beginning, and now Stewart is a white-hot star.

According to a consumer survey, spousal spending will fall sharply this holiday season. How the retailers are responding

Monday night's red-carpet event proved the Twilight franchise hasn't lost any of its giddy momentum

Virtually every country in the world has an official tourism department to entice visitors to its shores -- but not the U.S. If we build it, will they come?

Pimp My Bus Ride: Hip Intercity Motor Coaches

YouTube Effect: Making Money from Viral Videos

In the end, all the tea-party town halls, Glenn Beck rallies and "death panel" rumors may have less of a hand in bringing down health care reform than an intraparty Democratic culture war

In a new book, journalist William Langewiesche offers a dissenting view on Captain Chesley Sullenberger's dramatic January flight

The Filipino boxer wins by TKO in an electrifying match with Miguel Angel Cotto. But is it enough to save boxing?

While the U.S. remains mired in an economic funk, the Asian giant drives ceaselessly forward. On the eve of Obama's first visit there, a look at what the world's rising power can teach the U.S. now

President Obama's popular and rhetorical success on the global stage has not yet been matched by resolution of the United States' foreign policy challenges.

When it comes to finding quality, affordable health insurance, few have it worse than small-business owners and their workers shopping for coverage on the open market

There are hard legal cases, and there are high-profile legal cases, but the prosecutionof Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may turn out to be one of the hardest high-profilecases ever

As Black Friday draws closer, retailers are lean but shoppers remain tight-fisted. There will be price wars, but not the panic discounting of last year