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The summer solstice is coming up and the sun is the object of our celebration. You might think it’s because this part of the earth ...

In early October 2001, twelve members of the U.S. Special Forces flew secretly to Afghanistan prepared to fight the Taliban with guerrill ...

Baby boomers facing retirement have suffered significant financial losses in the recent economic downturn. About 52 percent of adults bet ...

We talk with Delaware senator TED KAUFMAN about the process surrounding the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Guest host Chris Satullo is in for Marty Moss-Coane. One of the most interesting political races next year has already begun in Pennsylva ...

Last year, People Magazine called American baritone Nathan Gunn one of the country’s sexiest men. Gunn’s well-developed physi ...

George Tiller was one of just a handful of physicians nationwide who provided late-term abortions. He was murdered on Sunday after severa ...

How a bad economy look on television. We talk with Time Magazine’s JAMES PONIEWOZIK and Syracuse University professor ROBERT THOMPS ...

President Barack Obama prepares for a speech in Cairo about the challenges and opportunities of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. O ...

In his touching and honest memoir, “Boy Alone,” writer KARL TARO GREENFELD talks about growing up in the shadow of an autisti ...

The bankruptcy of General Motors has wide-ranging implications for U.S taxpayers, GM employees and the U.S. auto industry and its supplie ...

The Hubble telescope, with it’s new upgrades can see much farther than it’s previous version, extending the vision some 200 m ...