Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) challenged Sen. John Thune (R-SD) in a startlingly tense exchange yesterday, slamming Thune's apparent looseness with the truth by saying, "We're not entitled to our own facts."

Over the past six years the United States has spent more than $72 billion subsidizing the oil and coal industries. As the world confronts the dangers of global warming the United States continues to provide taxpayer's money to subsidize the v

Researchers sequenced the genome of the cancer cells of one lung cancer patient and compared it to normal cells. They found 23,000 mutations, most of them caused by smoking. They estimate that smoking could cause 1 mutation per every 15 cigarettes.

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If Israel's government, its media and perhaps most of its people want to live inside a bubble of unreality, that's their business. When the US government joins Israel inside its bubble of unreality, if you are an American, then it's your business!

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, ...

"President Obama is playing the Bill Clinton game of throwing people a bone and telling them it's steak. It worked for Reagan, and for the first Bush, and even worked somewhat for George W. Bush. But it won't work anymore. Here's why..."

Right now, 1 in 6 people around the world don't have enough to eat. That number is skyrocketing, up 20% since 2005. The G8 took a step in July and pledged $22 billion in new funding to combat hunger. But they still haven't followed through on

A new study claims that the Earth's climate may be up to 50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over the long term than previous climate projections, and that these projections might need to be adjusted to account for this new information.

The Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) "will hold an important hearing on jobs creation" on Wednesday. Who are they turning to for job ideas? Larry Lindsey and John McCain's chief economic policy advisor during his 2008 presidential campaign. WTF?