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Ten years after the passage of federal legislation requiring that insurers cover mental health illnesses on par with physical illnesses, only one state, Illinois, received a perfect...

Tulane University has the most students graduate college, according to an analysis of four-year colleges and universities in Louisiana federal education data. Tulane recorded...

After a year or two of increasingly frivolous spending, one of my goals going into the New Year is to save as much money as possible. In some areas of my life, like eating out or buying clothes...

Today I learned that Twitter thinks I’m interested in literature, beer, hip-hop, and I really like my friends Ina and Harry (I’m double interested in both of them for some reason)...

For the second year in a row, California is experiencing unprecedented devastation and loss brought about by fires, ripping through communities in both the northern and southern...

A recap of the midterm elections, noting top of mind for most farmers and sustainable ag-advocates in the nation is the fate of our next farm bill. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex...

The criminal complaint made public by Robert Mueller's team separates the truth from the fiction Michael Cohen spun for congressional investigators.        ...

The move came hours after Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump project in Moscow.        ...

Former legal fixer said Trump continued trying to develop tower in Moscow months into presidential campaignFollow live updatesOne of Donald Trump’s closest advisers spoke with...

Delegates at UN biodiversity conference turn to Beijing to avoid point of no returnChina must play a leading role if the world is to draw up a new and more effective strategy to halt the...

Back in August, the DOJ headed to court, hoping to obtain some of that sweet sweet anti-encryption precedent. Waving around papers declaring an MS-13 gang conspiracy, the DOJ demanded...

In Part 1 of this series, I gave attention to law professor Jack Balkin's model of "free speech as a triangle," where each vertex of the triangle represents a group of stakeholders...

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Mr Trump says his former right-hand man is "weak" and "lying" to seek a reduced sentence.

Germany's Angela Merkel says President Putin caused the upsurge in tension with Ukraine off Crimea.

Ken White / The Atlantic: Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea  —  These developments would, under normal circumstances, end a presidency.  —  Attorney...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Two Celebrities Charged With Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled...

Buffer overflow flaw could lead to privilege escalation IBM is advising folks this week to check if they should update their Db2 database installations following the discovery of...

Short-term renters? More like short-term raiders Picture the scene, if you will. You and your partner have just rolled in through the front door after a rare and welcome night out on...

Problems with credit checks led some customers to be wrongly refused smartphone contracts.

The gaming giant will now let players share videos on YouTube, Twitch and others.

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

Voting and civil rights are under attack as an extremist judge may soon be confirmed by the Senate. Sign the petition to demand that his appointment be rejected...

Fewer sandhill cranes will survive migration this year, thanks to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's dangerous interpretation of the 100-year-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Demand...

AfriForum came to court to "justify violent dispossession" in its bid to review the Joint Constitutional Review Committee's report recommending expropriation without compensation...

A convicted murderer has refused to co-operate with instructions from a High Court judge, who asked her to reveal the names of the "children" who spoke through a possessed Cecilia...

In bacteria, nascent proteins bear the pretranslationally generated N-terminal (Nt) formyl-methionine (fMet) residue. Nt-fMet of bacterial proteins is a degradation signal...

The 26S proteasome is the primary eukaryotic degradation machine and thus is critically involved in numerous cellular processes. The heterohexameric adenosine triphosphatase...

Scientists have discovered a horrifying new species of wasp in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Named Zatypota, the species was identified ...

A mysterious 'earthquake' rippled around the entire world earlier this month and yet nobody felt a thing. The event, which originated in the Indian Oc...

Exclusive: ministers agree to increase number of doctors allowed to work in UK under medical training initiativeThe government is set to relax its immigration rules to let more foreign...

Permission granted to spend £60m cash received from sale of HQThe government has in effect bailed out Tory-run Northamptonshire county council after giving it unprecedented permission...

A new advisory committee has proposed a set of recommendations to NASA in areas ranging from export control to advertising to enhance commercial activities in space...

The space station robot CIMON has exchanged its first words with its spacefaring crew.

A plane carrying German chancellor Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Argentina has been forced to make an unscheduled landing after developing technical problems...

A 4.3 magnitude quake shook Gilan-Gharb, a city west of Kermanshah, on Thursday.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says she is "deeply concerned" by problems with implanted medical devices that have been been revealed by investigative journalists and...

A Niagara Regional Police officer has been rushed to a Hamilton hospital in serious condition after being shot by another police officer in Pelham, Ont., the province's police watchdog...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with George Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School, about this week's international summit on gene editing and how the birth of babies with edited genes...

What happens when General Motors leaves a town? NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein, who covered the exit of GM from Janesville, Wis., for six years...

83% of people say they would report a rape to Gardaí, however, the figure drops to just under a half in cases where it had happened to someone else.

The proposed abortion legislation continues to make its way through the Dáil at a snail's pace.

NEW YORK: After rising the last three sessions, Wall Street fell modestly on Thursday (Nov 29) ahead of key US-China trade talks at this weekend's G-20 meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial...

HP Inc , which houses the hardware business of former Hewlett-Packard Co, reported quarterly revenue that beat analysts' estimates, driven by growth in its personal systems that...

Portal origin URL: NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid That May Have Answers to the Origin of our Solar SystemPortal origin nid: 436515Published: Wednesday...

Portal origin URL: NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface to Learn What Lies BeneathPortal origin nid: 436350Published: Monday, November 26, 2018 - 16:30Featured...

For people who like to have an organized and clutter-free home, bulky ironing boards sure can take up a lot of space. There are lots of ways to hang an ironing board. With a few simple products...

Thinking clearly can be a challenge for everyone at times, and it’s even harder when you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and tired. If you’re feeling unfocused or overwhelmed...

by John Feffer Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless...

by Shireen T. Hunter    The assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, apparently by order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, has opened a debate on the wisdom of the West’s...

We look at the link between climate change and meat consumption on the heels of a series of damning reports that say if humans don't act now to halt climate change, the results will be...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could face prosecution in Argentina for alleged complicity in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-led humanitarian crisis...

Harold Levy, the former head of New York City public schools, worked to give all students access to college. "Harold wanted to know us, he wanted to hear us," one student says...

As illegal meth use has made a comeback across the U.S., pregnant women have not been spared, doctors say. New research shows rural areas in the South, Midwest and West have been hit...

In a statement released Thursday, the 14 leaders of the conference said it's irresponsible to attempt gene editing on eggs, sperm or embryos, except in lab research, because not enough...

About 276,000 more children are among the uninsured, a new report finds. Though the uptick is statistically small, it is striking because uninsured rates usually decrease during...