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Alzheimer's Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories

by: Joanne Silberner

Ask family members of someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia: Trying to talk with a loved one who doesn't even remember exactly who they are can be very frustrating.

by: Sonari Glinton

After spending much of the year on the rise, gas prices are now falling. The average price for a gallon of regular gas nationwide is $3.73, according to AAA.

by: David Schaper

Three years ago, President Obama was rolling out an ambitious vision for high-speed rail in America. "Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 mph," the president said at the time.

by: Scott Neuman

"It was a bad strategy. It was badly executed."

Same Bible, Different Verdict On Gay Marriage

by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

When President Obama announced he now supports same-sex marriage, he cited his Christian faith.

After The Quake, Japanese Shop For Survival

by: Lucy Craft

Walk into any large Japanese retailer nowadays, and you might think Japan had become a nation of survivalists.

by: Scott Hensley

The Food and Drug Administration has a proposition for the companies that make X-ray machines.

by: Tom Gjelten

For the CEOs of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could have been abstract.

by: Debbie Elliott

Now that former candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are endorsing Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee for president, the GOP is working to get the rank-and-file to fall in line.

by: Scott Neuman

Senate Republicans gave a thumbs down to a Democratic plan that would have frozen interest rates for 7.4 million students taking out new federally subsidized Stafford loans.

by: Julie Rovner

When you go to the hospital these days, chances are good that it will be affiliated with a religious organization.

by: Ilya Marritz

Very soon, Facebook will go public. That means anyone will be able to buy shares of the social networking giant on the Nasdaq exchange.

Romney's 1994 Senate Loss Left Lasting Marks

by: Ari Shapiro

From now until November, President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences.

by: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

by: Eliza Barclay

Drinks with a lot of sugar will rot your teeth, right? That's the conventional wisdom.

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