Praising and prodding Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation's health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself. ...more

July 15, 2009

"The better the villain," Alfred Hitchcock said, "the better the movie." And in the epic production that is the United States of America, we have followed that advice since the earliest settlers landed. For every hero the American story factory produces, a vivid new villain comes off the assembly line in short order. ...more

April 2, 2009

Federal authorities have found performance-enhancing substances on the materials Brian McNamee said he used to inject Roger Clemens, The New York Times reported Tuesday. ...more

March 11, 2009

The director of Pinellas County's visitors bureau is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee in Washington on Wednesday and deliver the message that drilling along the Gulf Coast could unnecessarily cripple the area's mainstay tourism economy. ...more

February 9, 2009

It has remained one of World War II's most enduring mysteries, one that resonated decades later in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks: Who in Washington knew what and when before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941? ...more

December 7, 2008

Commenting on Mr. Donald A. Pusey's letter of rebuttal to Mr. Randy Ludacer's letter, endorsing Obama for president, I would like to make a few comments of my own. Mr. Pusey, perhaps you have not read as many letters and guest editorials from Randy as I have, but I have read many. ...more

August 21, 2008

The nation's leaders are running out of answers to America's economic crisis. ...more

July 16, 2008

Being a Bering Sea crab fisherman isn't the anonymous, faceless job it used to be for Keith Colburn. When your face appears on TV dozens of hours each week on the Discovery Channel's reality series "Deadliest Catch," fame becomes part of the gig. ...more

July 9, 2008

Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that runs counter to U.S. policy and undercut Iraq's central government, a congressional committee has concluded. ...more

July 3, 2008

When the Army last year awarded a contract worth up to nearly $300 million to a tiny Miami Beach munitions dealer to supply ammunition to Afghanistan's security forces, it overlooked a very checkered past. ...more

June 25, 2008