One of the great medical advances of the last century, the invention of antibiotics, is at risk of being lost. Increasingly, microbes are becoming untreatable.

The website Politico — which covers politics, naturally enough — reported this week about an escalation in opposition research that should concern Americans of all political persuasions.

If you’d been thinking that the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s controversial health care law would settle the argument once and for all, well, think again.

Congress has only one week to prevent interest rates on new federal student loans from doubling to 6.8 percent.

Mitt Romney once promised that on “day one” of his presidency, he’d drop the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Arizona’s go-it-alone immigration law.

“Immigration shapes the destiny of the Nation,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in his majority opinion deciding the fate of Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Who would have thought, a year ago, that the name Jerry Sandusky would be as well known, maybe even more widely known, than that of his boss and patron, Joe Paterno?