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A strong majority of Americans say they support a combination of spending cuts and tax increases to cut the budget deficit -- but they falter when asked if they support specific ideas, like raising the national gasoline tax. That's according to a poll by the Pew Research Center.

Federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a controversial bill Friday that makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state. The question now is whether police can enforce the new law without violating civil liberties.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a "new national commitment" to train 2 million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. It was not the first time he's proposed this, though.

El Paso faced an identity crisis after NAFTA threatened the garment industry. Businesses changed course, and now the border town is booming.

Provisions of the federal health law boost research by the National Institutes of Health on breast cancer in young women and fund awareness campaigns for breast health. The overhaul provides $9 million a year through 2014.

A new technology of creating stem cells from unfertilized eggs may remove one of the biggest ethical hurdles to the research. But controversial aspects to the research remain.

The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to an artificial heart valve that can be inserted into the body through a small incision in the leg.

There has been no dearth of post-election Republican self-flagellation.

More than 100 people who spent part of the winter in San Diego’s temporary homeless shelter are getting a permanent address – four times more people than made that transition last year.