Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she would not “go with the flow” and complete her term in office, saying she did not want to be a “lame duck.” NPR’s Ron Elving explained what the resignation could mean for Palin’s political future.
Researchers have found a rare fossil of dinosaur skin from a hadrosaur that died about 66 million years ago in what is now North Dakota.
An American soldier is missing and believed kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said Thursday. If confirmed, it would be the first such incident since U.S.-led coalition forces invaded the country eight years ago.
As thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Marines reported their first casualties from the massive effort to reclaim the Helmand River valley from Taliban control.
With the close of the term, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are fleeing Washington for their summer teaching gigs. And as the words of the court’s opinions settle into law books, a picture is emerging of a conservative court on a slow but steady march to the right.
Researchers looked at the issue in a new study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. They studied another recent expansion of health care, when, in 2006, Medicare started paying for prescription drugs for seniors for the first time. The researchers found that people did spend more on drugs, but those who had little to no drug coverage reduced what they spent on going to doctors and hospitals.
Tensions continue to rise in Honduras two days after a military coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who says he plans to return to Honduras on Thursday. The newly installed administration of Robert Micheletti says he will be arrested if he does.
Democrat Al Franken won Minnesota’s Senate race Tuesday after Republican opponent Norm Coleman conceded, hours after the state Supreme Court ruled in Franken’s favor in an election dispute that had dragged on for nearly eight months.
