President Barack Obama -- not since the 1960's has such a youthful and creative exuberance changed society. I was in San Francisco, my old hometown, on election night where young men and women shouted victory, waved signs and danced in the streets. Collectively determined to break the mold (and I...

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Watch out. Wearing the wrong logo can land you in jail or cause such labeled property to be seized. A gang-related insignia of a Mongolian warrior sporting sunglasses has been prohibited for wear, licensing, sale or distribution by an injunction signed by Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court...

Hosting the Olympics is the ultimate commercial for China, showcasing its ancient history and the country's amazing ascent into modernity. Global cameras zoom in on China's rich culture and the can-do power of its people. Chinese food is one of the world's greatest cuisines and exotic foods do play...

"Sorry" just won't cut it. Tomatoes are seeing red at being wrongly blamed as the contamination cause of a national Salmonella outbreak. Now jalapeno peppers have replaced tomatoes as the possible culprit, according to investigation updates by the FDA.

But the boycott resulted in a sales loss of an estimated...

Finally, a mystery has been solved for Dr. Valdemar Welz, a Boston dentist with a 30-year practice. For the last two decades and in growing numbers, patients have shown signs of tooth enamel damage and complained of heightened sensitivity.

""Everybody is seeing it in their practice," said Dr....

New Orleans is like a newly grime-free Sistine Chapel. Over 50 members of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists went in search of continuing stories as part of our annual meeting, "New Orleans, We Have Not Forgotten" on June 20-21, 2008.

We saw, heard, tasted and felt the city's resurgence....

Summer vacation is almost here and airlines are breathless to scoop up buckets of cash through their new checked baggage fees. If your two-week vacation wardrobe cannot completely fit into a carry-on, then be prepared to pay extra. United, American and Continental Airlines will feed like jackals on the traveling...

The rule of law prevails -- at least for 12 of the 463 children forcibly taken from their parents at the polygamous FLDS community in El Dorado, Texas. Now a higher court finds that the "round-them-all-up and let's-sort-it-all-out-later" approach is illegal and wrong.

It takes present evidence, not future speculation,...

A modern-day Inquisition is taking place and the forcible rending of child from mother is the state-sanctioned form of torture. In the massive roundup from the polygamist community of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter Day Saints in El Dorado, 463 children are in the labyrinth...