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COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that the...

There is no tooth fairy. Republicans and Democrats take note. Taxes will surely continue to play a big role in the presidential campaign. The Republic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure on China over its claims to most of the strategic South China Sea has went up a couple of notches. First, the U.S. sent a w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's much speculation about Russian motives for intervening in Syria. The root answer lies in the timing. Vladimir Putin, the Kre...

WASHINGTON — As Republican presidential candidates debate the debates, roiling and railing against the unfairness of it all, campaigns have been busy ...

WASHINGTON — The IRS scandal — the denial of essential tax-exempt status to conservative advocacy groups, thereby effectively suppressing the groups' ...

WASHINGTON — Owen Labrie behaved despicably. As a senior at St. Paul's, the elite New Hampshire prep school, he lured a 15-year-old freshman into havi...

WASHINGTON — "Today," said Ted Cruz when the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision came down, "is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history...

WASHINGTON — One of the 10 Republicans who debated Wednesday night is going to end up as the party's nominee. None of them looked like presidential ma...

WASHINGTON — Soon after Wednesday night's Republican debate, the phone rang: "Did the fat lady sing?" asked the voice on the other end. "Probably," I ...

WASHINGTON — Yale historian Timothy Snyder is indebted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently made Snyder's new book even more new...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Why such a big rise in shootings in Cleveland? Is gang activity up? Are Facebook and Twitter to blame? Poverty? Drugs? Or just a stat...

WASHINGTON — Break out the name tags and Styrofoam-flavored coffee; it is conference season for Iran. Iran's foreign minister will attend the Vienna t...

WASHINGTON — Americans have been betting on sports since the first time a Puritan pilgrim boasted that his horse was the fastest in Massachusetts Bay ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — It is the world's largest producer of milk and also the largest consumer. And for good reason. Because in India, milk is not just the...

BERLIN — It would be a good idea for Ben Carson to spend some time in this city. Some recommendations for the Carson tour: — The 1936 Olympic stadium,...

WASHINGTON — When all else is failing, reinvent yourself. This is the new strategy of Jeb Bush's campaign. He's not going to be so nice anymore. Emerg...

WASHINGTON — Who the blast is Sidney Blumenthal? Doubtless many watching Thursday's House select committee hearing on Benghazi must have wondered the ...

WASHINGTON — The end is near. Or not. At various points in American history, popular preaching has warned that history itself was about to culminate a...

WASHINGTON — The debate over measures to reduce gun violence poses a cruel paradox. The most effective steps are politically unthinkable and likely un...