Jeremy White

An ongoing investigation of cardiovascular health found that a range of health risks, from smoking to diabetes, can over time cause the brain to lose mass and executive function.

A Gallup poll revealed that American Muslims generally feel integrated into American culture and confident in its political institutions, challenging a perception that Muslims feel marginalized or detached from society.

Elections to recall Wisconsin state senators who supported a controversial collective bargaining law have generated $4.2 million in fundraising, underscoring the far-reaching implications of the elections.

Twenty-year-old Chris Staniforth was an expert at slaying opponents during long sessions of playing "Halo" on his Xbox, but the game would kill him in the end.

The U.S. Senate Tuesday voted 74-26 to approve the debt deal bill, and with President Barack Obama's expected signature, the nation will have averted a credit market-constraining default.

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Establishing the contours of a massive debt deal consumed all of Congress, but filling in the $1.5 trillion details will be the responsibility of a mere dozen lawmakers.

People including James Cameron and the airline titan Richard Branson, have taken aim at one of the most remote places on the planet.

Politicians and lobbyists exhausted from a bruising and tortuous debate over a debt deal are already turning their attention to a dozen-member Congressional "super committee" that will be responsible for laying out some $1.5 trillion in cuts. Will they be able to find them?

In an increasingly familiar pattern of the federal government challenging tough new state immigration laws, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Monday in an effort to halt an Alabama measure that has been described as the toughest in the nation.

the very wealthy have begun investing in private vessels to explore the other great frontier: the ocean's depths.

The Coast Guard captured nearly $180 million worth of cocaine aboard a Carribean narcotics submarine, a new type of vessel that allows drug traffickers to surreptitiously transport massive amounts of cocaine.

The absurdity engulfing Washington in the runup to a debt deal taught us many things about the modern Republican party, but perhaps the most illustrative moment did not occur on the House floor; it involved a motivational movie.

Is the Republican Party serving the national interest? Or a narrow, special interest?

Testimony from 122,000 college students yields the nation's best party schools

Astronauts looking for a breath of fresh air have two options: return to Earth or travel some 1,500 light years to the Orion Nebula, where astronomers have for the first time found evidence of oxygen molecules in space.

In the rush to strike a debt deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. Government default, one question has been overlooked: will the debt deal increase or decrease the U.S. unemployment rate?

Fulfilling a goal set out in the new health care law, the Department of Health and Human Services mandated on Monday that health insurers cover the cost of a range of women's health services, including birth control.

Both the House and the Senate plan to vote Monday night on a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

A Northwestern University alum went into labor while taking the Illinois bar exam but still completed the test

Illinois governor Pat Quinn is poised to sign legislation giving undocumented immigrant students access to educational benefits, making Illinois the second state in less than a week to pass legislation aimed at bolstering education for undocumented immigrants.

A controversial provision of the Affordable Care Act took effect Monday as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced guidelines requiring insurance companies to cover women's preventive services, including birth control.

The next battle already looms on the legislative horizon: it's the battle over the 2001/2003 Bush tax cuts.

The military budget has not been spared in Congress' proposed debt deal bill.

As Congress remains locked in a bitter stalemate, the White House is quietly working to prioritize its financial obligations in preparation for the possibility that the government will no longer borrow money to pay its bills.

Yearly flu shots could be a relic in less than a decade, as scientists say they are on the verge of developing a universal vaccine capable of treating all strains of seasonal influenza.

Potentially ineffective or unsafe medical devices are making their way to patients because of lax regulations, a report by the nonprofit advisory group U.S. Institute of Medicine concluded.

The Tea Party is turning on itself -- punishing Tea Party members who support House Speaker John Boehner's debt ceiling initiatives.

Officials with the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did not inform the White House of a disastrous program that allowed weapons to flow to violent Mexican drug cartels.