The continuous rise in the number of people infected with the new strain of bird flu means the authorities must be relentless in their efforts to fight the virus and a nationwide information network needs to be established to prevent it spreading.

The stock market has recovered. Home prices are starting to recover and jobs numbers are creeping back, if at a glacial pace.

Both houses of the Legislature missed a chance last week to make our roads safer by outlawing cellphone use by drivers.

The 2014 budget proposal unveiled by President Barack Obama on Wednesday represents a daring bid to break the gridlock over spending and revenue that has kept Washington in a perpetual state of crisis for the past few years.

By this time next month, the morning-after pill — which can help prevent pregnancy when taken after sexual intercourse — could move out from behind pharmacy counters and onto the shelves of drugstores nationwide.

A story problem: Mary weighs 120 pounds and is traveling with a 12-pound baby, a 30-pound diaper bag and two suitcases with a combined weight of 80 pounds. Dick weighs 155 and hauls a 10-pound duffel. Bob weighs 280 and is dragging a 40-pound wheel-aboard suitcase. How much does each passenger pay for a 1,440-mile flight from Chicago to Phoenix?

The evidence against Mike Rice was too damning, too vile, too extreme for him to spend one more day on the Rutgers University payroll.

President Barack Obama officially announced his new brain research initiative last week, with a pledge to put $100 million in his 2014 budget to support work at three federal agencies.

Two decades ago, conservatives in Congress undercut comprehensive sex education, which teaches teens how to avoid pregnancy and venereal diseases, and instead poured taxpayer money into abstinence-only classes that advocate shunning sex until marriage.

With all the debate on the best way to prevent gun violence, surprisingly, there is one area of common ground.