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President Bush strongly defended his Iraq strategy, saying Congress has no business micromanaging the war. Even so, he was more restrained with the press during a White House news conference.

Days after a police raid and the death of a co-owner, the Marion County Record, a small weekly newspaper, raced to publish. The raid was criticized as a potential first amendment violation.

The full weight of the recession has come bearing down on the labor market. Employers shed more than half a million jobs in November. The unemployment rate is now 6.7 percent and economists expect it to go significantly higher. Layoffs are accelerating in just about every industry.

The U.S. economy continued to lose jobs in May, but at a slower pace than it has been, giving credence to the idea that the recession is nearing an end. Still, the unemployment rate climbed to 9.4 percent, and wage growth has slowed to a trickle.

Ratings like U.S. News and World Report's list of top hospitals generate a lot of buzz, but doctors say no single ranking of a hospital will tell patients everything they need to know.

Many low-income households that claim the earned income tax credit lack health insurance. That status on tax returns could provide a clue about people who would benefit from outreach.

In 1965, sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who would later become a U.S. senator from New York, authored a controversial report. It concluded the decline of the black nuclear family was a major component to black poverty. Nearly 50 years later, the Urban Institute has released a follow-up to Moynihan's study that looks at the current barriers poor black families continue to face, and compares those findings to the country's other ethnic groups.

The U.S. Army is teaching soldiers to identify and report mold in barracks, housing and offices — as part of a long-running battle against mold contamination.

The machines, pulled in 2013, expose travelers and airport workers to a dose of radiation well within acceptable limits — a factor of 10 below recommended safety standards.

Provisional data from 2022 showed a bright spot in the trend of rising suicides in the U.S.