Record Jump In Emissions In 2010, Study Finds

UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world

Commercial casinos in the U.S. have made it almost all the way back from the hard times of the Great Recession.    

Health officials say suicides among middle-aged Americans climbed at a startling rate over the past decade, a period that included the recession. Overall, the suicide rate for the age group jumped 28 percent from 1999 to 2010. And among whites, it shot up 40 percent.

PhysBizTechStudy Finds Expanded Medicaid Increases Health Care UseNew York TimesWASHINGTON — Come January, millions of low-income adults will gain health insurance coverage through Medicaid in one of the farthest-reaching provisions of the Obama health care law. How will that change their finances, spending habits, use of Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study saysLos Angeles TimesMedicaid Expansion May Not Improve Health of Poor in USBloombergMedicaid Expansion Enhances Financial and Mental Well-Being, Study SaysU.S. News & World ReportWashington Post -ModernHealthcare.com -NPR (blog)all 57 news articles »

New study: debt limit deadline likely extendedMinneapolis Star TribuneWASHINGTON - The likely deadline for Congress to prevent the government's first default will be later than earlier thought, a Washington think tank has found. The Bipartisan Policy Center said Friday that the government probably won't reach the brink of and more »