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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have a busy week ahead, starting with an expectedly confrontational hearing on Monday on the confirmation of John Bolton (search ) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, the undersecretary for arms control and international security at the State Department, will face unrelenting …

It’s enough to make you want to scrub your hands and hose down your computer. While you type, your fingers could be grazing over potentially harmful bacteria. That news comes from Gary Noskin, MD, and colleagues at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital. They were curious to see if bacteria found a …

MIAMI – A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday upheld Florida’s 160-year-old law enforcing a lifetime ban on voting rights (search) for convicted felons. Ex-felons sued in 2000 to get their voting rights restored when their sentences are finished, instead of having to apply through a complex system for …