"With all due respect." When, quite candidly, was the last time that phrase ever preceded anything remotely respectful? It's a rhetorical staple on political talk shows - and a predictable press conference preface to a skewering query. ...more

November 11, 2009

One professor called it spiteful. Another said it was far-fetched. Those were the reactions Wednesday to U.S Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's request that President Barack Obama get the permission of Congress before he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. ...more

October 29, 2009

Not too long ago, Japanese scientists made an in-depth research about global warming. ...more

June 16, 2009

Patti Constantino-Martin of Spring Hill wants an end to bailouts and the government to seize the assets of the executives of failed financial institutions. ...more

February 25, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama this week coped with an unwelcome distraction in accusations against Illinois' governor but continued to make key appointments and make inauguration plans. ...more

December 13, 2008

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers. ...more

October 22, 2008

The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere. ...more

September 26, 2008

Al Gore got it right when he said, "I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously." ...more

August 3, 2008

For as long as he can remember, Brad Williams has been able to recall the most trifling dates and details about his life. ...more

February 23, 2008

Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. ...more

January 23, 2008