This year, a company in Framingham, Mass., the New England Compounding Center, shipped 17,676 steroid injections for back pain to clinics in 23 states. Some of the injections were contaminated with a fungus that has led to a meningitis outbreak in 10 states, in which 119 people have been sickened and 11 have died. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that some 13,000 people got the injections, starting May 21.

Is the strategy in Afghanistan working? As we marked the 11th anniversary of the war Sunday, the answer is no.

Critics of school district consolidation may get what they want when voters go to the polls this Nov. 6.

While the Maine political world was having fun with a legislative candidate who lives an active fantasy life online, another legislative candidate has been charged with something much less funny.

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did what he had to do for his nation’s survival: Draw a clear, red line.

With a little less than one month remaining before the Nov. 6 general election, it is more important than ever that voters pay attention to the information they’re getting as well as the source that it comes from.

The Free Syrian Army has once again demonstrated its ability to strike at the heart of the Assad regime. The military’s General Staff Command Building has been extensively damaged in two major explosions that were followed by a ground attack that last for two hours. From his presidential palace, not far away, Bashar al-Assad will have heard the explosions, maybe even have felt the force of the blasts and seen the pall of black smoke rising into the capital’s sky.

Skyline Drive. The Tennessee Valley Authority. Hoover Dam.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have found his “Etch A Sketch” moment at Wednesday’s debate.

As a general proposition, Mitt Romney’s campaign has striven to distance itself from the George W. Bush administration.