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Michelle Knight's courtroom statement on Thursday targeted her captor, Ariel Castro.

Sequester cuts to the system of federal defenders are about to devastate the constitutionally mandated program, according to ...

August 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington, but Trayvon Martin's death and Voter ...

According to federal regulators, one brand of B vitamins is spiked with anabolic steroids

When it comes to the new Farm Bill, food stamps seem to get all the attention. But when ...

Most affordable housing developments are four walls and a roof, but developers of the Charlesview Residences in Boston ...

Many poor people prefer emergency rooms to primary care doctors for good reasons, according to a study by ...

A 19-year Smithsonian study of wetland plants and carbon dioxide offers new hope about the planet’s resilience.

Workers in US poultry plants spend eight hours or more a day leaning over a conveyor belt cutting, ...

Last spring, landscape design student Kevan Busa planned to spend his final semester in Barcelona, but a sharp ...

Federal agencies are still gathering data on the impact of sequestration, but analysts say the effects may be ...

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association announced in July that it had completed a home for George Washington’s papers, ...

Alaska, a destination both mysterious and adventuresome, boasts an economy driven largely by the petroleum industry, tourism, and ...

Brookings analysts assessed the effectiveness on the troubled housing market, 2008-1010, of three federal programs that provided homebuyer ...

Most Americans grew up singing the song Yankee Doodle for fun and learning, but during the American Revolution ...

The knowledge and wisdom of America's founding fathers still resonate today.

There are revolutions, and then there are revolutions. Revolution is an American’s heritage. We had a revolution in ...

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The federal Stafford Subsidized Student Loan interest rate doubled on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, ...

Celebrating the Fourth of July is synonymous with backyard barbecue, enjoying the company of friends, family, and neighbors, ...

Americans connect Nelson Mandela with Martin Luther King, but according to one historian Mandela has more in common ...

Imagine a lifeless, oxygen-deprived area in the Gulf of Mexico the size of New Jersey (as much as ...

How is climate change affecting America? Different regions are affected differently. Across the U.S., average temperatures have risen since ...

The latest development in license plate technology is in South Carolina, but lawmakers still have to determine if ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y.—Actor Chevy Chase has returned to his old upstate New York stomping grounds to help some friends ...

As American drones strike terrorist targets, a fire of criticism bears down on the United States. American-Pakistani relations ...