NH Voters Want Improved Economy Americans are apt to vote when they want change. Republicans are counting on that in this year's election to unseat President Barack Obama. The nation's first primary voting takes place in New Hampshire on Tuesday, tha...
Doctors Report Rise in Obesity-Related Cancers in US The American Cancer Society says in its annual report that fewer Americans are dying of cancer, but doctors are seeing more patients with cancers linked to obesity, including pancreatic and kidney...
Miranda Lambert Delivers Whole New Flair With 'Four The Record' Miranda Lambert says her new album, Four The Record, pushes the limits and builds on her previous releases with a whole new flair. The Country star kept a high profile throughout the pas...
Maternal Health Poses Another Major Challenge for Somalia Two decades of civil war in Somalia have made the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth. The World Health Organization says Somalia has one of the hig...
US Court Ruling on Corporate Campaign Spending Draws Concern Two years ago this month [January 21], the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government may not limit spending by corporations on political campaigns. The majority in the narrow 5-4 decision, k...
New Hampshire Prepares for Presidential Primary In less than a week, voters in the northeastern state of New Hampshire will cast ballots in the first U.S. presidential primary, following last Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. People going to the polls in New...
Primary Balloting Sets Stage for US Presidential Election The political process in the United States to pick the candidates to run for president is a long one, and the next stop is the primary election in the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire....
'Word on Street' Impacted Language in 2011 While 2011 is over, some of the words that came to define the past year are still very much with us, and may be for years to come. Since 2011 was an especially busy year for grassroots political action, many...
African Rainforests Continue to Face Challenges The African continent contains about 30 percent of the worlds global rainforests, second only to the Amazon. Scientists and conservationists met at Oxford University to discuss changes the forests are e...
Cutting Ethanol Subsidy Might Not Impact Food Prices With the U.S. ethanol industry consuming about a quarter of the nations maize crop, many have blamed biofuels for rising food prices in recent years. The new year brought the end to a $6-billion su...
Analysts: Iran's Threats in Gulf Unlikely to Lead to War Irans recent threat to close the Strait of Hormuz led to a defiant U.S. response. It raised concerns of a military clash in the Persian Gulf and also raised oil prices. Some analysts do not exp...
Israeli Society Facing Religious Extremism, Backlash For some time now, Israeli women have been protesting against what they see as efforts by some ultra-Orthodox Jews to exclude them from public spaces. Ultra-Orthodox Jews counter it is they who are...
Scientists Identify Deafness Gene in Mice Scientists have identified a gene that causes deafness in mice, and they say it could lead to a better understanding of hereditary deafness in humans and maybe new treatments in the future. Scientists had pre...
US Cancer Deaths Decline U.S. cancer deaths continue to drop, according to the American Cancer Society. The new report shows a slow reduction in death rates from the most deadly kinds of cancers. Over the past five years, the death rate for men decli...
Physical Activity Linked to School Achievement Pushing aside physical education to focus on academic subjects, such as math or reading, could have a negative impact on achievement, according to new reseach which finds physically-active students do be...
