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At Qualcomm Stadium, where thousands of evacuees took refuge Monday to escape approaching fires, hazy and acrid air pinched the throat. The stadium, normally home to the NFL's San Diego...

The facts: A long, vigorous swim may be good for your heart, but scientists have long questioned whether the high levels of chlorine in many swimming pools can have some...

Crib bumpers caused the deaths of more than two dozen children over 20 years, according to a recent analysis. Using publicly available databases of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for...

Robert Lantz, a talent agent whose clients ranged from Bette Davis to Leonard Bernstein to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, has died in Manhattan. He was 93. He died Thursday of...

Catherine Roraback, a lawyer who pressed the Connecticut case that eventually led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that laws banning the use of contraceptives were unconstitutional, a precursor to...

The scenes of carnage in Pakistan last week conjured what one senior administration official Friday called the "nightmare scenario" for President Bush's past 15 months in office: Political meltdown in...

After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical of the war as "phony soldiers," he got a complaint letter signed by 41 Democratic senators. He decided to auction "this...

U.S. border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings. It is part of a dress rehearsal for new...

Long one of the top destinations for Iraqis fleeing the violence racking their country, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new...

Five years ago, Heather Carter and Marc Gitterle were like many Americans: They lived in a four-bedroom house, they each drove an SUV and they had an awareness of environmental...