The oil and gas industry sponsors and spins research to shape the scientific debate over horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. That’s the conclusion of a watchdog group’s analysis of more…
They’re brewing up a revolution down on Lafayette Street. And even theater reactionaries seem destined to be swept up in its doubt-defying ardor. “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s independent-minded new musical for…
The image showed the 48-year-old Crawford looking sultry, but imperfect, in black lingerie, her bared stomach and thighs characterized by what appears to be some cellulite, wrinkles and sun damage….
San Francisco’s Cow Palace has hosted livestock expositions, Rolling Stones concerts, and a U.S. heavyweight championship. But this Saturday, it was home to something really special: the nation’s only Native…
Canadian police said Friday they’ve foiled a plan by at least two suspects to kill people in a public place in the Halifax-area – Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney…
Walk for just a few minutes around the dizzying streets of Tokyo, and you’ll be sure to encounter a surge of billboards, signs, screens and posters advertising various businesses and…
His management company, Mstones, said he was released early Friday morning and will hold a press conference on Saturday. “He will make a formal public apology and give a full…
This panel is a presentation of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with The Huffington Post. As…
The Priorities USA board has long been seen as the hub of pro-Clinton group coordinating and the rift gave Clinton opponents fresh ammunition to remind the public of campaign infighting…
By Elizabeth Gilbert Nearly all the women I know are stressing themselves sick over the pathological fear that they simply aren’t doing enough with their lives. Which is crazy —…
Lingering tensions between Hillary Rodham Clinton’s loyalists and the strategists who helped President Obama defeat her in 2008 have erupted into an intense public struggle over who will wield money…
The DNC defines a presidential candidate as someone who “has accrued delegates in the nominating process and plans to seek the nomination, has established substantial support for his or her…
This week, he made his first acquaintance with the snow, and zookeepers expect him to make his public debut in March. Until then, fans can watch the zoo’s weekly video…
The law, known as the Recovery Act, was meant to give Puerto Rico’s public corporations protections similar to bankruptcy. Unlike American cities like Detroit, which used federal bankruptcy law to…
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) continued his campaign against labor unions on Monday, using executive authority to block public employee unions from collecting mandatory fees from workers. – Rauner’s move…
A proposed bill in Florida would make it illegal for a person to enter a public facility designated as single-sex if the person was not born a biological member of…
Would Barack Obama have been elected president without David Axelrod? That question is less far-fetched than it may seem. To be sure, Obama is a man of prodigious talents —…
For years, some current and former American officials have been urging President Barack Obama to release secret files they say document links between the government of Saudi Arabia and the…
Bruce Jenner has been an Olympic superstar, the hunk on the Wheaties box, a Playgirl cover boy, the author of inspirational sports books and a sometime actor and celebrity game-show…
Who can blame him? Though the mainstream is increasingly aware of the various ways some people are modifying their gender presentations — even in our Instagrammed, reality-show age — it…
The tribunal’s ruling was in response to a complaint brought by civil liberties campaign group Liberty, among others, in the wake of claims by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about…
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS, France — Laïcité, the concept of state secularism, is a defining principle of the French republic, right up there with the national motto of liberty, equality and fraternity. Developed…
NEW YORK — A New York state judge heard arguments on Thursday over whether to release records from the grand jury investigation into the death of Eric Garner, the 43-year…
WASHINGTON — Arizona lawmakers are pushing to provide elected officials with more privacy as they draft legislation because they say the state’s requirements for open meetings make it too difficult…
He said the shooting occurred in a room of a School of Public Health building. – CNN’s Chandler Friedman contributed to this report.
Kitzhaber announced Friday in a press conference that Hayes will no longer play a policy or political role in his administration. – “To recite every reported instance in which Hayes,…
There’s been much discussion over the past few weeks about the so-called anti-vaxxers, parents who have chosen for a variety of reasons not to vaccinate their children. From the commander…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Monday it has pushed back by one year its goal for ending chronic homelessness among the general public. It’s maintaining a goal for…
I have never bothered Harper Lee, although I have had endless chances. Many times, I’ve looked across the broom sage behind my parents’ Alabama home toward the town where she…
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