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Radiation can be slow to cause cancer, taking decades to kill. But children can suffer quickly.

"Charismatic and idiosyncratic, capable of building friendships. Communicating to the masses as few other leaders ever have, Mr. Chavez will be missed."

General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse

Tipped workers, such as waiters in restaurants, have not seen a minimum wage increase since 1991.

The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.

Absent an extremely large injection of government funding or further life extensions, the reactors currently operating are going to end their licensed lifetimes between now and the late 2050s. They will become part of an economics-driven US nuclear phase-out a couple of decades behind the government-led nuclear exit in Germany.

There isn't any evidence that the U.S., or other countries that borrow in currencies they control, face some debt tipping point after which borrowing costs spiral out of control. There isn't even much evidence this is true of Europe's troubled economies. Borrowing costs fell for the PIIGS in 2012 (one year after Greenlaw & Co.'s sample ended), not because those countries reduced their debt burdens, but because the ECB promised to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.

No nation should own nuclear arms – not Iran, not North Korea, and not their critics who take the moral high ground.

Students organizing for climate justice on campuses today are drawing connections between the environment and social issues like debt, racism, and immigration.