WASHINGTON - A group of senior retired generals and admirals are calling for Congress to amend a recent law that they say “dangerously interferes” with the ability of commanders to battle the epidemic of suicides among members of the military.Legislation added to the 2011 defense ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. teenagers should be given prescriptions for emergency contraception to keep on hand in case they ever need it, the American Academy of Pediatrics said.Emergency contraception, such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’s Plan B One Step, should be given to teens directly ahead ...
DETROIT — Only a couple of weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the man who would become his Republican challenger in the next election penned a New York Times column with a fateful headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."Those four words would haunt Mitt Romney across the Rust ...
NEW YORK— Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy waited with dread Wednesday and heard warnings to evacuate for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm spun toward them and threatened to inundate their homes again or simply leave them ...
Among the notable presidential hopefuls in the crowd of more than 400 who formally have filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission:-- Jimmy McMillan, from Brooklyn, N.Y., self-proclaimed standard-bearer of the Rent Is Just 2 Damn High Party, and his running mate, Vermin Supreme, whose ...
The Coast Guard is searching for two people off the coast of North Carolina who had been passengers aboard the tall ship HMS Bounty, which lost power Monday in Hurricane Sandy and sank after 14 other passengers were rescued.The Coast Guard said that a C-130 Hercules aircraft and a MH-60 Jayhawk ...
