The Obama administration, reeling from back-to-back blows from the Supreme Court, is weighing options to provide contraceptive coverage to women who are about to lose it or never had it because of their employers’ religious objections.
Though Tom Steyer, the most influential environmentalist in American politics, has vowed to sell his investments in companies that generate fossil fuels, the projects his hedge fund bankrolled may emit carbon for decades to come.
An autopsy of the teenager who was snatched from an East Jerusalem street found soot in his lungs that suggests he was burned alive, Palestinian news agencies reported Saturday.
A disease is estimated to have killed more than 100,000 piglets and young hogs each week since it appeared in 2013, and environmental groups have grown worried about the effects on groundwater of the buried carcasses.
As the sprawling Zaatari camp for Syrians evolves into an informal city, aid workers say camps can be potential urban incubators that benefit host countries like Jordan.
In the five months since a drought emergency was declared, Californians have barely cut their water consumption, leading some residents to get personal about waste.
Wimbledon’s strict new limits on colors in clothing have left many, including champions of the past, displeased.
Companies are trying to help students avoid the high price of out-of-state tuition, but some colleges frown on it.
Tens of thousands of Argentines have traveled to Brazil, stirring worries among Brazilians about violence and about Argentina winning the World Cup.
Beyond the online-streaming behemoths, with their largely overlapping selections, is a world of smaller sites with more unusual, less commercial fare.
President Obama needs to set a specific goal for signing the international treaty and destroying the stockpile.
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Connecticut and Illinois are among the states considering programs to allow workers to direct pretax money from paychecks to retirement accounts.
“Life Itself” is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Ebert, the most famous and affectionately regarded of American movie critics.
A police officer and a priest combat demonic possession in “Deliver Us From Evil.”
While homeownership is down nationally since the housing market collapse, the drop-off among younger adults, 25 to 34, is particularly striking.
Lawmakers and their staffs are taking more free trips financed by special interests.
What happened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s promise to clean up the capital?
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