President Obama's visit to China was devoid of the star power and soaring rhetoric that on his earlier overseas ventures captivated Europeans and the Arab world.
While the consumer price index has fallen 1.3 percent in the last year, the drug industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent.
As this issue was being delivered in the dark hours of this morning, many hunters were already up and brewing coffee, ready to head into the fields and forests for what promises to be another bountiful deer harvest. Today is the opening of general firearms season.
Thirteen charges of premeditated murder were lodged Thursday against Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan, the alleged perpetrator of the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.
A wide-ranging overhaul of the nation's health-care system squeaked through the House of Representatives Saturday, but only after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to mollify conservative Democrats, agreed to tighter restrictions on coverage for abortions.
The economic downturn, so long and deep that it's increasingly dubbed "the Great Recession," breached a psychological barrier when the jobless rate spiked to 10.2 percent in October.
The Virginia government has moved to close a loophole through which hundreds of thousands of tons of poultry waste have flowed, a regulatory tightening that should help stem the release of algae-causing nutrients into the Shenandoah River.
After months of criticizing Democrats' health-care reform plans, congressional Republicans have finally unveiled their alternative, an admittedly modest proposal that claims to lower premiums and expand coverage without major structural changes in the health system.
Bob McDonnell's convincing win in Tuesday's gubernatorial election is testament to the wisdom of running a focused campaign attuned to the basic concerns of voters.
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