House Democratic leaders abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling Thursday that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.
Constance McMillen didn’t believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria’s fertile central belt, buying each other’s goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other’s farms across a sun-baked plateau.
There are lots of reasons for all Americans to be greatly concerned about the economic recession that is hurting many of our people. But aren't we threatening to make the recession worse by letting Washington impose more governmental burdens that make it harder for our free enterprise system to pull us out to recovery?
Show cartoonist that he's wrong
Clay Bennett is an uber-talent with high intelligence and an ax to grind; God bless his heart. His cartoon of Tuesday (March 9), is another "must talk about it."
Members of the Georgia Legislature and Gov. Sonny Perdue were in a buoyant mood Wednesday following passage of water conservation bills in both the state House and the Senate.
If we personally have jobs, we may rejoice and be able to handle many challenges that may come our way. But if we don't have a job, or a prospect of getting one, real hardship and anxiety may be upon us.
When Volkswagen's assembly plant opens in Chattanooga in about a year, traffic near the $1 billion factory probably will be like the first day of school, a planner said.
Seismologists, geophysicists and others with similar interests have long known that Chile occupies a prime location on the Ring of Fire, the zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that encircles the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
Hamilton County's jobless rate in January rose eight-tenths of a percent from December to reach 10 percent, the highest rate in nearly 27 years, according to figures from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Once home to the Chattanooga Lookouts and a stage for some of baseball's most notorious and celebrated players, Engel Stadium sits relatively dormant, forgotten and weather beaten.