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A new, non-partisan study by Thomas Hungerford of the non-partisan Congressional Research Service confirms that the explosion of income inequality over the past 15 years is fueled by rapidly rising income from capital gains and dividends. 

It may be called weed, but marijuana is legendarily hard to grow.

NEW YORK -- Firefighters subdued a man they witnessed attacking a woman with a meat cleaver on the street Sunday, police said.

DODGE CITY, Kan. -- A second major winter storm was bearing down on the central Plains early Monday, less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region.

A vote on Hagel, arguments about a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and the expected onset of the "sequester" mean Washington DC is bracing for a consequential week ahead.

SAN FRANCISCO – A sea search was under way late Sunday for two adults and two children missing after sending a distress call that their sailboat was in trouble south of San Francisco, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

MIAMI -- Bishop Ivory Wilson on Sunday gazed on the shattered window of a building that serves as a church on the weekend and as a day care during the week. There is the charred cafeteria where children would eat their snacks. A roof is now blackened with soot.

A 79-year-old man was shot and killed in Brooklyn early Sunday morning, police said.

A man who took his dog out for a walk around the block Saturday night returned home moments later to a raging inferno with flames of up to 30 feet bursting through his roof.

Don't hurt Hammer! Beloved rapper and entertainer MC Hammer was arrested in Dublin, Calif. on Saturday (Feb. 23) for obstructing and resisting a police officer, but claimed via Twitter that he was a victim of racial profiling.