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A new study finds that in states where there has been a Medicaid expansion, emergency room visits have increased, rather than decreased, as predicted by the Obama administration.

Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, tells NPR that the former NSA contractor should be thanked for revealing questionable surveillance activities.

Football fan Josh Finkelman paid $4,000 for a pair of tickets to this year's Super Bowl. He says he paid too much and claims the NFL doesn't make enough seats available to the general public.

With less than a month until the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, security measures that are perhaps the most extensive and restrictive ever seen are being put into place.

A famous biologist predicts overpopulation will lead to global catastrophe. An economist disagrees — and challenges the biologist to a very public bet.

As Democrats stress the need to refiine the War on Poverty, the GOP says it needs wholesale changes. Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republicans on Wednesday critiqued the federal effort as a failure of big government — and said that the states know best how to help the poor.

Slow-cooking expert Stephanie O'Dea shares the story behind her KFC-inspired chicken: It was an attempt to recreate the Colonel's secret recipe so that her daughter, who has celiac disease, could experience a taste most Americans take for granted. In a twist, O'Dea also wanted to cook the chicken in a Crock-Pot.

There are about 137 million jobs in America. Here's how they break down — and how the picture has changed over the past few years.

Zero-tolerance policies in public schools around the country have been criticized for prompting unnecessary suspensions and premature incarcerations. The Los Angeles Unified School Police is trying a new approach.

In Raze, women are made to fight each other to the death in the name of feminine self-determination. Critic Ian Buckwalter says John C. Waller's directorial debut doesn't have much to say about the violence-as-entertainment it purports to examine.