CHICAGO – The good news is that the mutual fund stands atop the performance rankings for the first half of 2006. The bad news is that makes it a Stupid Investment of the Week. It’s the one and only rule that this column has had since its inception, the one …

VILHONNEUR, France – A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a room decorated with ancient art was among the rare finds at a cave in western France whose subterranean art predates that of the famed Lascaux caves, officials said Friday. It was only the second time that a human body …

WASHINGTON – A groundbreaking ceremony will be held next week for a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon, marking a milestone in the project’s nearly five-year fundraising effort. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is among 150 guests, including family members, expected to attend …

Sooner or later, you find out what a lonely job it can be to own your own business. Not just because you carry the burden of keeping sales rolling in so that you can pay your suppliers, your employees, and yourself. But also because you’re the president, and there’s nobody …

What’s the greatest medical development of the last century? Open-heart surgery? The discovery of penicillin? Laser hair removal? According to experts, the answer is clear: vaccinations. “Immunizations are the greatest medical advance of the last one hundred years,” says Richard L. Wasserman, MD, PhD, clinical professor in the department of …

Welcome to “The ZONE” folks! The weekend “FOX & Friends” Zone, that is! Of course we are going to focus on more of the aftermath of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killing. What about the political timing of the hit? Will it help the president’s ratings? Ellen Ratner and Jim Pinkerton …

CALUMET PARK, Ill. – Eight years after he was wrongly accused as the nation’s youngest murder suspect that led to a $2 million settlement with the city of Chicago, the teenager is facing a new charge as an adult in a double shooting in a south suburb. Romarr Gipson, now …

WASHINGTON – Women now earn the majority of diplomas in fields men used to dominate — from biology to business — and have caught up in pursuit of law, medicine and other advanced degrees. Even with such enormous gains over the past 25 years, women are paid less than men …

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. George Allen attacked his Democratic challenger’s opposition to a flag-burning amendment, and James Webb retaliated by calling Allen a coward who sat out the Vietnam War “playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada.” The statement by a senior adviser to Webb, a decorated veteran and …

CHICAGO – Nearly 1 in 5 students at two Ivy League schools say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, burning or other methods, a disturbing phenomenon that psychologists say they are hearing about more often. For some young people, self-abuse is an extreme coping mechanism that seems to help …