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St. John's wort is a small, yellow-flowered herb whose name derives from one of its first known uses - warding off evil on St.

It isn't even unusual that the Republican National Committee sent to its base a loaded questionnaire with blatantly leading and highly biased questions.

Maria Cantwell says a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes a number of benefits for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Saturday night proved to be an unforgettable one for a couple of Utah candidates on the campaign trail.

Canyons School District has agreed to pay former Alta High assistant principal Mark Montague $55,000 to settle a grievance he filed after being transferred amid implications he had condoned racist incidents.

The traditional separation between doctors who prescribe drugs and pharmacists who sell them serves two primary purposes.

This week on Washington Watch Weekly: I will feature an interview with Sen. Orrin Hatch from last night's webcast, " Healthcare Mandate: Violating the Separation of Church and State ." Oliver North will be on the show to discuss West Point's decision to rescind an speaking invitation to Lt.

Congressional Republicans aren't impressed with President Obama's new policy on contraception and religious institutions.

JAMES HUMPRHREYS SPOKE TO students Feb. 9 about being gay and Republican. Humphreys is a the vice president of the Utah chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a group of GOP members who support equality for gays and lesbians.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is set to vote Thursday on Atlanta-based Southern Co.'s request to build two new reactors at Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell focused a relentless attack on President Obama on Thursday, using the entirety of his time at the Conservative Political Action Conference to assail the president for what he says are dirty tactics that "demean the office of the presidency" and "corrode our democracy." "The White House and its lieutenants have ... (more)

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California's Proposition 8 served only to "impose on gays and lesbians, through the public law, a majority's private disapproval of them and their relationships" by taking away their right to marriage, a federal appeals court has ruled.

It isn't even unusual that the Republican National Committee sent to its base a loaded questionnaire with blatantly leading and highly biased questions.

Washington a With one voice, Utah's federal lawmakers criticized the Obama administration for its plan to drastically reduce the public land available for oil shale and tar sand mining.

When President Obama used the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast to say that for the fortunate to pay a little more to help the less fortunate "coincides" with Jesus' teachings, he must have touched a nerve.

Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, a longtime opponent of oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildife Refuge, has helped defeat the latest Republican plan to open up the refuge for new energy exploration.

Jack R. Van Der Slik: Christians, others, have an obligation to understand Mormon candidates based on the good that they do Latter-day Saints have great track record as public servants, serving God and treating others in a fashion befitting Christianity Jack R. Van Der Slik, Port St.

NOW was an early proponent of the first Violence Against Women Act, holding a rally on Capitol Hill in 1995 that brought together tens of thousands of activists to demand full funding for the bill.

As Washington struggles to find ways to pay for highway and road repairs, the U.S. Senate is considering relying on a wide array of revenue sources that go far beyond the traditional gas tax, including measures such as changes in how inherited retirement accounts are taxed.