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Over the past few months, stories about San Francisco have become ubiquitous in the national media. Everyone wants to weigh in on what's being called the San Francisco " culture war." Last week, PBS

Foodini is a 3D printer for foodstuffs. Its Florida-based makers are hoping their time-saving device becomes as ubiquitous on kitchen countertops as the microwave oven has become. But instead of ...

Is the U.S. housing market really recovering? That depends on who you ask. Housing prices are on the rise again, but that gain is being driven chiefly by Wall Street investors, who in the past two ...

A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he 'will not fare well' in prison and needed treatment instead of

America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad ...

Legislation making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives would significantly reduce National Science Foundation funds for the social sciences and interfere with the agency's peer-­review

I'm just beginning to go through the House Intelligence Fake Dragnet Fix bill - what I will henceforth call the RuppRogers Fake Dragnet Fix. It does have some improvements - the kind of bones you ...

Dispatches Obama's New NSA Proposal and Democratic Partisan Hackery I vividly recall the first time I realized just how mindlessly and uncritically supportive of President Obama many Democrats were

It was quietly reported last June that the FBI was aware that an organization -- possibly a law enforcement agency -- had plans to assassinate leaders of the Occupy movement, and the bureau did ...

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