WASHINGTON – American Indian tribes are pressing to move gambling operations closer to cities where customers live, but Sen. John McCain is demanding that the Interior Department create a procedure to help decide when tribes can open off-reservation casinos. The requests from tribes are decided under exceptions to the 17-year-old …
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson announced on Wednesday he will step down effective April 28, in a surprise announcement that comes at a time of upheaval at the central bank. “My service on the board has been rewarding and stimulating, and it is now time for …
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ATHENS, Tenn. – A prison volunteer and the murderer she allegedly helped escape were nabbed in a chance encounter with police, who were in a Tennessee mall parking lot discussing strategy for the capture when the couple walked out a bookstore, police said Saturday. The arrests of Toby Young and …
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The term “high-definition” was almost a curse five years ago, when politicians, broadcasters and TV makers were reluctant to hoist massive changes upon the nation’s television landscape. Suddenly the same term — originally meant to describe greater density in TV displays — is being used to …
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GARCHES, France – A team of scientists hopes to crack one of the layers of mystery surrounding 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc: Could a rib and other fragments recovered after she was burned at the stake be hers? Eighteen experts plan a battery of tests to determine whether the …
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The latest news about calcium and vitamin D may not look so encouraging, but most experts say the take-home message is the same: Keep taking your pills. The biggest study ever to examine the value of the supplements suggests they convey only limited protection against broken bones. They failed to …
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WASHINGTON – New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court’s conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief …
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Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! The show tonight airs from our home studio in Washington, D.C. If you watched Friday, you know we were in Indianapolis. Also, if you watched Friday you might wonder whether the legal panel will come back …
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GLENCOE, Ala. – Two juveniles were arrested on arson charges in a weekend attempt to set fire to a small church in Etowah County, a state official said Tuesday. Ragan Ingram, a spokesman with the state insurance office in Montgomery, said a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were accused …
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Rheumatoid arthritis patients with the most severe disease are roughly 70 times more likely to develop lymphoma, a type of cancer, than patients with mild disease, according to new research from Sweden. The findings provide some of the best evidence yet linking the elevated lymphoma risk among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) …
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