
Iowa on Monday became the latest state to suggest it will refuse to expand its Medicaid program under President Obama's health care law once the option becomes available in 2014.

Former President George W. Bush has been helping to renovate a women's cancer-screening center in Zambia during a weeklong trip to Africa.
The federal government is opening regional patent offices in Silicon Valley and three other areas as part of efforts to reduce a backlog and hire experts not willing to move to the Washington area.

The nation may be heading for its first presidential election in 80 years without a military veteran on either major-party ticket.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines _ the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history _ for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people.
The legal "cognoscenti" among us have begun to transmute shock into a rationalization that confers strategic genius to blunder.

The Supreme Court twice last week abandoned the Constitution to give new powers to the federal government and the Obama administration. The question for conservatives and patriots is: What can be done about it?

In the wake of the Supreme Court's stunning ruling on health care, activists on both sides of the abortion issue have pledged to bring the full weight of their movements into the November election battles.

What just happened to my health care? With the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday on Obamacare, the high court has forever altered the carefully delineated balance of powers established by our founders in the Constitution.