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Public sector employees have suffered as many cuts as anyone in this economic downturn, but The Nation's Bryce Covert says keeping firefighters, teachers and the like in their jobs is not only good economic policy, it should be good politics too.

The scene is stitched from 817 images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from Dec. 2011 to May.

A new analysis of federal data found students did not feel challenged by teachers.

Two doctors and one trainer did not contest the agency's allegations.

When you go to any cemetery, you hear the sound of weed cutters and lawn mowers carefully cutting grass around graves for maintenance. But at Lincoln…

NASA has enlisted a crew to test how astronauts will cook and eat on years-long missions to Mars. The volunteers are learning to make French bread and Puerto Rican white bean stew out of shelf-stable ingredients in a low-gravity environment because you can only eat so much freeze-dried ice cream.

All week long on Alabama Public Radio, the news department is revisiting the people we heard from in the hours and days following the April 27th tornadoes…

Poverty in America is on the rise. Here's a breakdown of the more than 46 million poor Americans still struggling despite the slow economic recovery.

“Crater: A Helium-3 Novel”Author: Homer HickamPublisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc.Pages: 311Price: $14.95 (Cloth)Over the years Homer Hickam of Huntsville has…

“Shiloh: 1862”Author: Winston GroomPublisher: National GeographicPages: 443Price: $30.00 (Cloth)Alabama author Winston Groom has had a remarkable spring…