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Supporters of the health care overhaul want to make it unrepealable and say public support for it will grow as its benefits become more tangible. Opponents are focused on keeping the law unpopular until Election Day 2012.

Census data released this week revealed that Detroit lost nearly 250,000 people in the past decade. That's roughly one person every 22 minutes, according to a local analysis of the numbers. A smaller population means less federal funding.

Wally the Beer Man is a fixture at Minnesota Twins baseball games. He even has his own trading cards and bobblehead doll. But he got in trouble when police accused him of selling alcohol to a minor. The beer salesman said he was set up in an unfair police sting. A Minnesota jury found him not guilty.

Someone snatched Mark Bao's laptop but the 18-year-old had a program that automatically backed up his files on remote servers. When the thief used the server, his files were transmitted to the backup site. Bao was able to track down the thief and contacted police.

Get your brackets ready. Foreign Policy offers their own version of March Madness — the Democrats versus the dictators. Who will win?

Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer, who wrote and produced the HBO drama, explain the show's surprise ending — and why it's going to be hard for them to let their fictive polygamous family go after five seasons. (Warning: major spoilers)

Over the past week, Mozilla, Microsoft and Google launched the latest versions of their Web browsers, spurring a new round of discussion about the browser wars.

Christopher — a former U.S. Secretary of State in the Clinton administration — died late Friday. Christopher was a key figure in peace efforts in Bosnia and the Mideast.

On Saturday, Egyptians are voting in a referendum on nine amendments to the country's restrictive constitution. Many of those who demonstrated to overthrow former President Hosni Mubarak are urging a "no vote" because they don't accept the constitution that allowed his authoritarian rule.

The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's northeast have torn the social fabric of many communities and wrought havoc on the normal cycles of life and death. In the northern city of Kesennuma, members of the community are struggling to maintain dignity and respect as they send off the deceased.