The people of Switzerland have been voting on whether to ban the building of Muslim minarets in their country. Religious leaders across the world have criticized Switzerland for such actions, denouncing the vote as a blow to religious freedom and intolerance.
Texas is taking about 400,000 newborn DNA samples a year without the [...]
From dollars to death panels: how Republicans distorted debates on Capitol Hill.
A powerful homemade bomb sent a high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train careening off its tracks, Russian officials said, killing at least 26 people in what officials consider an act of terrorism.
A Senate report claims that Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach [...]
The decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has claimed he was the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and four others in a civilian federal court in New York City is raising eyebrows from the public.
If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and [...]
Some two million Muslims headed to Muzdalifa on Thursday after spending the day at the plain of Arafat to prepare to cast stones at the devil in the most dangerous part of the annual haj pilgrimage.
The final stroke in the Republican master plan to retake congress has just been released. It involves [...]
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania has angered some of its students and members of the community for requiring overweight students to take fitness classes. The school, a historically black university, says it is doing its part to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes in the African-American community.
MSNBC asks: Is Black Friday really worth the effort?
Venezuelan President [...]
President Obama is pledging a provisional target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, the first time in more than a decade that an American administration has offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases, the White House announced on Wednesday.
The NY Times Economix blog lists the millionaire members [...]
An Israeli prisoner exchange with Hamas has not yet been agreed and might not happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after a senior cabinet colleague predicted a breakthrough within weeks.
The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new US-built fighter [...]
