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Whatever the company's motive, retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc. made health-care reform significantly more likely last week by throwing its weight behind a requirement that all employers provide health coverage.

Editor's Note: After a series of drunken driving fatalities in the region, The Day is running an occasional series on the issue.Attorney Ronald F. Stevens takes on some of the toughest cases that come through the criminal court system when he represents people charged with killing someone while driving drunk.

Government "safety net" programs like Social Security and food stamps have pulled growing numbers of Americans out of poverty since the mid-1990s. But even before the current recession, these programs were providing less help to the most desperately poor, mainly nonworking families with children, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and ...

The Supreme Court heard five environmental law cases in the term that ended Monday, and environmental groups lost every time.

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New information about brain circuit activity may help explain why some people who take the sleep aid Ambien walk, eat, talk on the phone and even drive while not fully awake -- and without remembering it the next morning.

They bring the total reported in June to 48, according to our numbers. Main photo courtesy: Georgetown University Soldier photos: MySpace, U.S. government - There has been little reprieve for American combat forces fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wausau resident Jesse Burish, a member of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, will be ordained to the priesthood today at the Cathedral of St.

A new study in mice may help explain some of the rare but strange side effects in people taking the sleep drug Ambien, including sleep walking, midnight binges and even driving while not fully awake.

Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center.

My old friend and Georgetown University Foreign Service School classmate, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, was executed in Tehran after a failed attempt to overthrow Iran's Islamic Republic in 1982.

Michael Jackson fans attend a vigil in Buenos Aires on Friday, reflecting the singer's worldwide popularity.

But Michael Jackson touched almost all of them. The music star's death Thursday , at age 50 after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest is an international event.

Friday, June 26, 2009 Environment - "A Rough Term in Supreme Court for Environmentalists Draws to a Close" Jennifer Koons reports today in the NY Times in a story that begins: Environmental interests were trounced in the 2009 Supreme Court term that ends Monday.

President Obama, in his May 21 speech at the National Archives Museum in Washington said that 'we can defeat Al Qaeda ...if we stay true to who we are...anchored in our timeless ideals.' A much more somber note, however, was in a warning by retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter the day before at Georgetown University Law Center.

When Jenny Sullivan was growing up in north suburban Winnetka and attending the prominent Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart college prep in Lake Forest, she must have learned a few things about forgiveness.

It's a Race Thing Her involvement in a study of attitudes toward black lesbians in the '80s at Georgetown University propelled Dr.

Re: Jamie Kepros' June 9 Soapbox about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: Here is what Sotomayor wrote in an opinion she handed down as a Circuit Court of Appeals judge: She 'hoped a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't ...

Interview and discussion with Jean Mitchell of the Georgetown University. She talks about President Obama's plan to create a health care reform.

Pop-oriented R&B singer Amerie, the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member, grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany.