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The recession is apparently prompting more women to try to delay having babies, according to the first survey aimed at documenting the effects of the economic downturn on childbearing. The...

Herbert "Jack" Miller Jr., who led the Justice Department's war on organized crime in the 1960s and later brokered the pardon of former President Richard Nixon and prevented the release...

DVD AND BLU-RAY Star Trek 4 stars Director J.J. Abrams and the creative team behind the latest "Star Trek" movie did something very smart when they decided to reboot that...

David Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David Headley. Until 2006, he was Daood...

In 1997, a federal committee of medical experts recommended against routine mammograms for women in their 40s, sparking a political uproar that led to congressional hearings and a unanimous Senate...

Nearly 50 million Americans -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to eat, according to a new federal report. The number who lack...

Nearly 50 million Americans -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to eat, according to a new federal report. The number who lack...

A quarter of U.S. teens ages 16 to 17 who have cell phones say they text while driving, and almost half of Americans ages 12 to 17 say they've been...

Retired Navy Capt. William Ecker, who led low-level sorties over Cuba in October 1962 and provided photographic evidence of Russian missile installations that almost led to a nuclear confrontation between...

"It's sort of like being the absent-minded professor times five," says Tim Page. After a lifetime of struggling to relate to fellow human beings, he received a diagnosis of Asperger's...