President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney battled over economic issues, health care and Social Security during the first debate of the 2012 presidential election. The debate, hosted by Jim Lehrer of "PBS Newshour," took place Wednesday night at the University of D... Read more...
If you're considering suicide, Facebook now stands ready to get you some help. The gigantic social-networking site said Tuesday that if any of its 800 million users type a post saying they are contemplating suicide, the site will offer to connect them to a crisis counselor through the site's chat... Read more...
CLICK TO ENLARGE A middle-income family with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend about $226,920 to raise the child to age 18, according to a Department of Agriculture report. The cost grew 2 percent from last year, with the greatest share of the increase coming from transportation, child car... Read more...
They're more likely than whites to develop a number of chronic and deadly diseases Though minorities in the United States face an array of challenges, chief among them may be personal health and well-being. African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other minority groups are more likely than whit... Read more...
Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down the... Read more...
A movement to impeach Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker is underway after Baker, a Democrat, refused to sign a multi-state lawsuit against the government for the new health care law. According to the Huffington Post (via Peach Pundit blog), Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, p... Read more...
President Obama claimed final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill. The signing ceremony at a community college in northern Virginia culminated almost a year of fiercely partisan debate and a tortuous le... Read more...
Washington (CNN) - Upwards of $1 million a day is expected to be spent on health care television ads this week, as interest groups work overtime to try to influence Congress before the House votes on President Obama's top domestic priority. Health care commercials all but vanished from the ai... Read more...
(The Frisky) -- I'd never been one of those girls who'd dreamt about her perfect wedding. The white wedding dress, the exorbitant costs, the fuss over a big, shiny rock -- none of it ever appealed to me. I wanted to find a lifelong partner, and a family sounded nice, too, but honestly? I never ca... Read more...