The Kansas City school board voted Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.

A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring ...

Liberal and progressive organizations that helped propel him to the White House are turning on him now, little more than a year ...

All the products contain hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and the Food and Drug Administration continues to update its list, at ...

The top United Nations envoy in Iraq urged election officials Wednesday to release the results of this week's historic vote as ...

Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack ...

A popular group of drugs prescribed to slow bone loss may be putting some patients at an increased risk of hip fractures if taken ...

The House Democratic campaign chairman says the ethics committee has ended an investigation of former Rep. Eric Massa, the New ...

The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net for the poor and ...

The famed operative gives no reasons.

Station also serving as radio flagship station for Titans and Predators More

He gives his reasons from the well of the Congress — colorfully.

From KnoxNews:

The attorney for a University of Tennessee student accused of illegally accessing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account is challenging a federal magistrate judge’s authority to issue search warrants for Internet companies outside Tennessee.

At a hearing today, U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley gave attorney Wade Davies the green light to pursue his challenge despite a looming April 20 trial date for David C. Kernell.

Interesting.

Police say drug sales likely outnumbered store sales at Jefferson Street market More

Virginia's General Assembly became the first in the nation Wednesday to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President ...

Anarchival explains why she can’t objectively evaluate certain pieces of legislation:

In law school we’re taught to set aside our emotions and weigh such issues dispassionately, and sometimes I’m successful at it, but I’d be lying if I said I can read a Bill like SB 1618 and not see my father sitting with his rifle in our driveway. He had a permit. He had enough money to hire lawyers to plead a convincing case in court. We did not. The idea that Senator Beavers could even consider risking the lives of innocent women and children (and probably even some men) for the mere sake of gun rights sickens me. A full quarter of the Bills she’s filed this Session pertain to the expansion of gun rights in Tennessee, and I’m not necessarily against them. Even on a personal level, I support the ownership of guns and the right to self-defense. When my father tried to shoot me, my mother was of course hysterical and terrified. Luckily, so were the neighbors. Since they’d heard the gunshots too, there were enough calls to get the police to respond that time. The officer listened to our story, saw the damage to the door, and took pity on us. He took my mother out the next day to buy a rifle and taught her how to shoot it. The next time my father visited, it was my mother standing up to him with a loaded gun that made the terrorism stop. I still own that rifle, as well as a few other firearms. To paraphrase the old saying, God made man and woman, but Sam Colt made ‘em equal. I still can’t help but think, though, that she wouldn’t have even had to do that – and I wouldn’t have been placed in the danger of being caught in the crossfire – if my father had never been allowed to have his guns in the first place.

From the GAC (via BennieV)

“I truly believe that country music has become America’s music,” John told The Washington Post. “It’s wonderful to see D.C. and our lawmakers recognize and respect what we’re doing.”

The CMA presented the Library of Congress with some useful historical documents celebrating country music, including a leather-bound collection of DVDs featuring more than 40 years of CMA Awards shows. The Library of Congress already contains numerous country artifacts, including pioneering recordings from the 1920s and hand-written documents by the likes of Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard that accompanied their applications for copyrights.

CMA execs toured the library and also used the occasion to look for new ways that the organization and the Library of Congress might work together. Country music tells the story of many heartland Americans, and part of the CMA’s mission is to make sure that narrative is recognized by other agencies that catalog history.

A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant ...