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Florida's largest private insurer, the same one that's been trying to raise rates, now says it may have overcharged policyholders. About 98,000 former and current State Farm Florida policyholders will...

President George W. Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval...

The cult of popularity that reigns in high school can look quaint from a safe distance, such as your 20th reunion. By then the social order may have turned over...

Blade in hand, his arm raised and ready to throw, Jamie Zaugg squinted toward a wood target balanced on a log. A step, a whip of the wrist, and his...

A federal agency has joined some of the nation's biggest landlords in trying to repeal stronger safety requirements for new skyscrapers that were added to the country's most widely used...

What happened to Bright Eyes? For the last decade the songwriter Conor Oberst has released the vast majority of his songs as Bright Eyes, working under that name with groups...

First there were the propane lamps. Then wind turbines, followed by solar panels that powered William Shay's off-the-grid vacation home overlooking Lake Billy Chinook. And now, two decades after the...

A month after the FBI declared that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not...

The government's planned takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, expected to be announced as early as Sunday, came together hurriedly after advisers poring over the companies' books for the...

The commitment gene Whether a man has one type of gene versus another could help decide whether he's good "husband material," a new study suggests. "Our main finding was an...