Jeremy White

The Speaker struggles to hold his party together.

New medical devices that are hazardous or ineffective have made it onto the market because of a regulatory loophole, a report by the U.S. Institute of Medicine charged.

The debt deal saga is becoming a defining moment for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

The debate over how humans supplanted Neanderthals may have a simple solution: there were more of us.

Predictions about al-Qaeda's imminent collapse threaten to lull the U.S. into a false sense of complacency about the continued threat the terror network represents, a recently retired top counter-terrorism aide said.

A flood of prehistoric humans pouring into Europe inundated our ancient rivals the Neanderthals and overwhelmed them with sheer force of numbers, according to a new study.

Theories for how humans outlasted Neanderthals, our ancient rivals, have ranged from brain capacity to climate conditions, but a new theory posits something more simple: there were more of us.

A judge blocked a controversial ballot measure that would have banned the circumcisions of minors in San Francisco, citing religious freedom and laws regulating medical procedures in deciding it had "no legitimate purpose."

A new study suggests that it might simply be because there were more of us.

The White House is touting a new government analysis that anticipates health care costs consuming a growing share of the nation's GDP, pointing to the fact that the new Affordable Care Act will have a minimal impact on the rising costs.

The 2010 wave of Tea Party conservatives that propelled House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, into power have emerged during the debt talks as a central threat to Boehner's leadership by increasingly exposing Boehner's inability to hold together his fractious caucus.

A government analysis predicted that spending on health care will steadily increases over the next decade, a projection that the White House said vindicated the Affordable Care Act because, despite a large increase in those with health insurance, the increase would be only slightly affected by the new health care law.

Continually rising health care costs will account for one fifth of America's gross domestic product by 2020, a trend that will be driven only slightly by the Affordable Care Act, according to government analysis.

Three soldiers connected to an alleged plot to plant explosives at Fort Hood in Texas were arrested on Wednesday, officials said.

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., who has embodied the Tea Party's emphasis on fiscal responsibility by consistently espousing a message of government living within its means, is being sued for owing more than $100,000 in child support.

A New Orleans police officer on trial for shooting unarmed civilians in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina told a jury on Wednesday that he acted out of fear he was about to be shot at.

While the scramble to strike a debt deal dominates headlines, Republicans have been filling an appropriations bill with measures that would sharply curtail environmental regulations.

Betraying a sense of deep frustration with the stalled debt talks, senior Republicans directed their anger on Thursday against the Tea Party members whose intransigence has fractured the caucus.

Scientists are close to developing a vaccine that would treat all different strains of the flu, making annual flu shots unnecessary.

Walter Reed, the Army medical center that was viewed as a top facility for wounded warriors before a 2007 investigation revealed widespread negligence, closed with a formal ceremony on Wednesday.

Once the International Space Station has finished its celestial journey, it will head to a new great unexplored region: the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

Get a glimpse of the battle for Libya's future

Osama bin Laden's death and a relentless campaign of drone attacks have weakened al-Qaeda to the point that the terror organization may no longer be capable of planning and carrying out large-scale attacks.

A judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to freeze federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, backing the Obama administration's push to ease restrictions on the controversial research technique.

A new study incorporating interviews with more than 89,000 people in 18 nations revealed that 15 percent of people in high-income countries reported having been depressed, compared with 11 percent of those in low- or middle-income countries.

In an effort to avoid galactic litter, Russia and its partners will submerged the International Space Station into the Pacific ocean after retiring it in 2020.

While a glut of foreclosures makes South Florida a symbol for the casualties of the U.S. housing crisis, the swift recovery of the Miami housing market demonstrates the voracious taste for property that helped create it.

The sentencing on Tuesday of an environmental activist who disrupted the sale of oil drilling rights highlighted the nebulous space between lawful protest and illegal action.

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., was arrested during a demonstration outside the White House on Tuesday, the second time the congressman has been arrested for protesting federal immigration policy.