How climate change played a role in a 10,000-year ice age journey

The climate 25,000 years ago was cold, very cold. It was the height of the last ice age, and survival required desperate measures — especially from those in Eurasia, ...

Facebook CEO and wife most generous Americans of 2013

Silicon valley’s young power couple tops the 2013 list of most philanthropic Americans.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, both 29 year...

Cigarettes More Dangerous Than Ever: US Health Report

WASHINGTON: Smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than previously known, including liver and colon cancer, blindness, diabetes, and erectile dysfunction, s...

Having given up on world peace, here's a modest Christmas wish list for Santa Claus

Top of my list would be for Americans to stop confusing politics with morality, law with ethics. Government has an important job: to protect us in the exercise of our right...

Of Khobragade, Richards, Equality, Fairness & Uniformity

I’ve been following the Devyani Khobragade story since its emergence at the prime centre of global media, and to me, it smacks of one more gaping hole, bigger than th...

George H. W. Bush Honored With Liberty And Justice For All Award

“The period of his presidency stands as a well-remembered time when those qualities characterized leadership in our country at the highest levels – a condition ...

Come back to HealthCare.gov, feds urge those seeking insurance

The federal government has been calling out to over 275,000 people who couldn’t enroll at the new
health insurance website and encouraged them to try again.

President Obama offers apologies to Americans who have lost their health insurances as a result of the new law

In his latest public attempt to gather support for the the Affordable Health Care Act President Obama was apologetic considering that insurance companies are reportedly can...

Obama Says Health Law Critics ‘Grossly Misleading’

President Barack Obama defended his health-care law, saying the flawed online insurance exchange will get fixed and accusing critics of “grossly misleading” the...