Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber as lawmakers vote to pay federal workers who have been furloughed during the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate remain at an impasse, neither side backing down, since House GOP conservatives linked the funding bill to President Obama's signature health care law. The shutdown has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of insulin.
Saying your "A, B, C's" will be a lot less stressful soon in Turkey. In an effort to clamp down on the use of foreign languages, especially Kurdish, lawmakers had made it illegal to use the letters X, W and Q.
American Indian tribes have been caught misappropriating tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, according to internal tribal audits and other documents.
The Dalai Lama will return to metro Atlanta this week for a series of events at the Arena at Gwinnett Center and at Emory University, where he serves as Presidential Distinguished Professor.
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