Medical experts have long expressed the health risks that come with smoking as well as with weight gain. But what if you gain weight after kicking your smoking habit? For some, th...
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A trio of U.S. lawmakers is saying "no" to horse meat. The U.S. is set to begin slaughtering horses again for the first time in six years, and recent news of Ikea sausages an...
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The post-election party is over for Barack Obama, with the president slipping in overall approval and relinquishing his advantage over congressional Republicans in trust to handle th...
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What would you do to reduce the chance of dying of cancer? How far would you go if you had a 70 to 90 percent chance of contracting bowel cancer -- and your uncle, mother, father and two of your brot
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Nearly half of all gun owners cited protection as the main reason for owning a gun in a new survey released Tuesday -- a vast change from a survey conducted nearly 14 years ago, which showed gun owner
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A divided Senate Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic bill Tuesday expanding required federal background checks to nearly all gun purchases, giving President Barack Obama an early victory on curb
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House Republicans unveiled their latest budget outline on Tuesday, sticking to their plans to try to repeal so-called Obamacare, cut domestic programs ranging from Medicaid to college grants and requi
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A 6-month-old baby has died in a Chicago hospital after being shot five times while her father, the intended target in the shooting, was shot several times and now remains in critical condition.
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