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Lawmakers in the House have voted to pass a bill that would ban tax subsidies for many private insurance plans that include coverage for abortions services. The bill would make permanent an existing law that Congress has renewed every year since the 1970s.

Male spiders (and males across the animal kingdom) will often court anything that even vaguely resembles a female. One in particular — the jumping spider — has a snazzy technique to catch their mate: dance their hearts out.

Flooding increases along the Mississippi River and eight states on alert; Hillary Clinton is in Rome discussing how to finance Libyan rebels; an Iraqi suicide bomber has killed many police; actor Jackie Cooper has died; the last WW1 combat veteran has died.

In recent weeks, reports coming out of Syria have indicated a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters. Lee Smith of The Weekly Standard argues that these tactics, along with media blackouts are the return of violent strongmen, of whom Osama bin Laden was only one.

Researchers say that anti-inflammatory asthma drugs that come in pills can be good alternatives to inhalers, especially for children. But the study comes with some heavy caveats.

At 474,000, claims were at an eight-month high. Meanwhile, General Motors said it earned $3.2 billion in the first quarter.

For documentarians Matt Nager and Ivana Corsale, the area that Romans dubbed "Campania Felix" is anything but happy country. They spent 10 weeks in the region now dubbed "the triangle of death" — because of its high rates of cancer.

In April, over 12 inches of rain fell on parts of central Kentucky. That runoff, on 22 occasions, flooded the city’s pump stations for 24 hours or more.…

As experts have gotten a look at photos of the pieces of a U.S. helicopter left behind at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, they've come to some conclusions about what it was.

Hear seven North American orchestras mix rarely heard repertoire with basics by Bach and Beethoven at the world-famous concert hall.