A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.

More than 4,000 gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list, at least temporarily. The Fish and Wildlife Service said it had erred by ending federal protection for wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin without having a public comment period.

This month, Edward Reilly, 35, finally let go of the television he had owned since his college days.

Although the Mitsubishi set was technologically outdated, it had sat for years in Mr. Reilly

American politicians, from both parties, insist that they want to combat global warming and reduce this country

Several factors lead to the collapse in December of earthen dikes supporting a coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant, an engineering consultant said.

Three automakers, including the Ford Motor Company, will get the first $8 billion from a $25 billion loan program intended to accelerate development of more fuel-efficient vehicles, the national energy secretary said Tuesday.

The NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen, the actor Daryl Hannah and more than two dozen other opponents of mountaintop removal mining were arrested during a protest in Raleigh County. The state police said about 30 people were charged after they blocked a road near a Massey Energy subsidiary

Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human.

But they emphasized that there was no way to prove their theory and only sketchy data underpinning it.

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International migrant workers, foreign students and political refugees are often endangered by laws that discriminate against people with AIDS, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch reported last week.

About a third of the world