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Doctors in America have been lobbying for an end to medical quackery on TV


Here’s a more productive way to stay healthy this fall than worrying abut the incredibly unlikely event of an American Ebola outbreak: Get a flu shot.


There’s a lot of nonsense out there. Here’s the facts.


The Obama administration wants to make it easier for kids to get refugee status instead of risking their lives to get to the US. Will it work?


Over the Garden Wall premieres on November 3.


Republicans have gotten great Senate news lately — except for here.


The more ambitious the US gets in its war against ISIS, the more civilians its strikes are likely to kill.


The news of the first US Ebola infection is frightening, but the strength of America’s health care system means that we won’t have an outbreak in the US like the ones in Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone.


The movie adaptation of the novel is twisty, brilliant — and hilarious to boot.


What we can learn from the world’s worst Ebola epidemic that we didn’t learn from the SARS and H1N1 swine flu scares.


This is happening more frequently as the Arctic heats up.


DC says it’s about empowering boys and girls. Its merchandise says different.


A senior Russian foreign ministry official says Moscow will guarantee the “rights and freedoms” of Russian minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.


The federal government prints money, so it never needs to worry about profits. The real pros and cons of loan guarantees, bailouts, or other endeavors are different.

