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The nuclear talks are going nowhere. Instead we should be focusing on another fact: Iran may be closer to profound political change than at any time since the revolution that ousted the shah 30 years ago.

Reporting from Washington - After keeping a careful distance for the last year, the Obama administration has concluded that the Iranian opposition movement has staying power and has embraced it as a central element in the U.S.-led campaign to pressure the country's clerical government.

It’s unfortunate that it had to come to this. I’m not too paranoid, but certainly disappointed. I guess I will just keep driving my Toyota very carefully.

Bill Lyons isn’t taking any chances, even though his 2008 Highlander is not one of the millions of Toyotas recalled because they could suddenly accelerate.

A woman from suburban America agreed to carry out murder overseas and to provide material support to terrorists underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face.

Reporting from Washington - Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill "or die trying," a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in Europe and Asia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday.

What our customers kept telling me is ‘just don’t let me spend money that I don’t have.' We wanted to help them avoid those unexpected overdraft fees.

In a move that could bring an end to the $40 cup of coffee, Bank of America, said on Tuesday that it was doing away with overdraft fees on purchases made with debit cards, a decision that could cost the bank tens of millions a year in revenue and put pressure on other banks to do the same.

We are trying to remake 206 years of history in two months. Normally you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I have seen people work together on these visions who have not spoken to each other in years. There is a new approach.

With his country's economy stalled, crops unplanted and a million people without homes, Haitian President René Préval began a visit to Washington Tuesday to focus on how U.S. and international donors can help the beleaguered nation recover from a devastating earthquake.

The Taliban, during those six years when they governed Afghanistan, they have left such memories that it is unacceptable by the Afghan women for them to come back.

Taliban rule was a dark period for women in Afghanistan, and they want to make sure their fears are not forgotten as the new government in Kabul tries to find ways to make peace with the Taliban.

Shafiqa Quraishi, an Afghan police colonel, had her career disrupted by the Taliban rule from the mid-1990s to 2001, when women were brutalized, kept at home and not allowed to work.

Are the fat cells getting big, bursting and then the macrophages are going in to clean up the mess? Or is it that the macrophages are killing the fat cells?

Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which being overweight or obese contributes to a downward spiral of inflammation that can trigger heart disease, diabetes and other ailments.

A lot of people, they have the concern. The majority of Muslims, they don't want to draw attention.

The millions of blue forms being mailed this month in the first census count since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, do not ask about religion. But the idea of answering any questions posed by the government makes some Muslims uneasy, and community leaders are worried that many may avoid the 2010 Census altogether.

I have this fantasy of an 8-year-old getting a set and saying: ‘Mom, can Chelsea come over? We want to play “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. I’m going to be the organization man, and she’s going to be the soulless drone.’”

AFTER three seasons, “Mad Men,” the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. There have been magazine cover articles, calendars and an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” all devoted to it, spoofs on “The Simpsons” and "Saturday Night Live," and even a “Mad Men” category on “Jeopardy.”