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A judge's decision paves the way for same-sex couples in Miami-Dade County to marry, starting at 2 p.m. In the rest of the state, gay couples can get married at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

As the legislative year begins, a major watchdog group for the Edwards Aquifer has claimed some successes for 2014 and said it would be keeping a close…

Fresh Air rock historian Ed Ward has a look in to a vital part of Lynn's career.

Journalist Steven Brill's latest book critiques the Affordable Care Act, which he calls "unsustainable." In the next few years, "something is going to snap," he says. "We cannot pay for this."

Florida's first same-sex weddings are taking place today, after a judge said Miami-Dade County could start issuing licenses immediately.

On Wednesday, December 28, 1864 in a conference at Washington, D.C., President Abraham Lincoln asked Union General Ulysses Grant “what you now understand…

New Year’s Day, January 1, 1865. For just short of four years the American people at war had torn at the very political bonds that for better or worse…

Advocates say tools that cloak online identities are needed to protect activists. Prosecutors say they hinder efforts to police all kinds of crime, from child pornography to illegal gun sales.

The nation's biggest banks are leaning toward a new credit card security system that will rely on embedded chips and signatures rather than PINs. But critics say the PIN-and-chip system is superior.

Millions of deep-water fish die every year because of barotrauma, a condition divers know as "the bends." But scientists say descending devices can help fish survive a trip to the surface.