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House Democrats led by Civil Rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, are in the midst of a sit-in on the House Floor to try to force a vote on guns

Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses nearly doubled last year, says watchdog group.

Starting this week, nearly 10,000 registered nurses, affiliated with National Nurses United (NNU), are striking in Minnesota, California and Massachusetts in order to improve patient safety and quality care at the hospitals where they work. The nurses are taking a stand on behalf of their patients at hospitals in the three states owned by various corporations that are raising serious questions about their commitment to patients and their health care providers. While the nurses are striking against the specific details of each situation, they are fighting back against similar problems seen at hospitals throughout the country.

Americans really believe in alternative medicine, shelling out more than $30 billion in 2012 alone for treatments from acupuncture to homeopathy.

Federal authorities said Wednesday that 275 people have been rounded up in the largest crackdown to date on health care fraud.

Rep. Steve King's quest to prevent abolitionist and suffragette, Harriet Tubman, from replacing former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 stopped a b

By next week, Fiat Chrysler plans to stop producing new vehicles in North America with the most dangerous type of Takata air bag inflators.

The U.S. Senate is likely to pass a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers.

The efforts during World War II to develop an atomic bomb were once shrouded in secrecy, but today, you can now visit the project on your smartphone.

Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the lawsuit that claims Led Zeppelin stole its biggest hit "Stairway to Heaven" from the late Randy Wolfe.