Changes to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest extinction of all time, a study suggests. The event, which took place…

A UCLA social psychologist has found that we think of future selves as different people, which could explain why many of us don’t save enough…

A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office addresses the bombastic overuse of anti-psychotic medication for suppressing behavior problems in dementia patients. The report…

You’ve been there. You head to the dentist thinking you’ll have a clean bill of health and high praise for you oral hygiene, only to…

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2015 – Organic stakeholders have filed a lawsuit in federal court, maintaining that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) violated the…

It's been a long 22 months since the first of thousands of classified government documents became public in what has turned into a drumbeat of…

If only the great arguments between religion and doubt could be settled by scientific evidence. A story this week has it that solid evidence has…

A Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS), which Human Rights Watch calls a prototype for fully autonomous weapons—or "killer robots"—fires at sea. (Photo: U.S. Navy/flickr/cc) Fully…

As Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting points out, until a video surfaced of South Carolina policeman Michael Slager murdering Walter Scott, the media was reporting a…

After spending five long years negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Obama administration is now pushing for the fast-track authority from Congress that would…

The idea of Iran as a regional marauder that is gobbling up other countries in the Middle East and against which pressure must therefore be…

The financial media as well as segments of the alternative media are pointing to a possible weakening of the US dollar as a global trading…