We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll ... 

Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15-to-34-year-olds who want to change the world. In the process, they could help Pivot change the ... 

The annual federal budget deficit is sinking out of $1 trillion-plus nosebleed territory where it has hovered for the past four years. 

Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble ... 

Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, ... 

More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door ... 

A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for ... 

U.S.-born children of Hispanic immigrants are more likely than their parents to identify themselves as Democrats as they integrate into American life, ... 

She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears. 

Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — ... 

Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was ... 

Participant Media plans to launch a cable network aimed at viewers 18 to 34 years old with programming it describes as inspiring and thought-provoking 

White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's part of a historic shift that already ...