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Mothers in the Military: Punishing Mothers Who Serve Before I was a mother, I could work until 6:00 or 7:00 in the evening, then head off to college courses until 10:00. I could come in early and ...

More than 100,000 West Virginia American Water customers in West Virginia are being told NOT to ingest, cook, bathe, wash or boil water. Why? A chemical

By Travis GettysFriday, January 10, 2014 9:45 EST Residents of nine West Virginia counties have been warned not to drink or even touch tap water after a chemical spill. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ...

A chemical spill into a West Virginia river has led to a tap water ban for up to 300,000 people, shut down bars and restaurants and led to a run on bottled water in some stores as people looked to ...

Radio Disney, "home of the hottest kids' music," is teaming up with Ohio's oil and gas industry to teach school kids that pipelines are awesome. "Rocking In Ohio" is an interactive, game show-like ...

In an effort to extend benefits to over one million Americans whose emergency unemployment coverage expired, a White House economic adviser said there is a 3-to-1 ratio in the number of unemployed ...

The European Commission wants to hear your opinion on copyright reform. On this site we're making it easy for you to respond to the official EU consultation by filtering out the questions that don't

A rare opportunity to change the path of copyright in Europe has emerged, but there's not much time to take advantage of it. The European Commission (EC) has opened up for public comment copyright ...

Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured in 25 years. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest ...

Imagine your frustration as you place a call to customer service to complain or seek assistance for a product or service, only to be circumvented by an obtuse robot, or subjected to 17-minute wait ...