Protestors carry signs as they demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid programs outside San Francisco city hall on Sept. 21, 2011. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The future of Medicaid -- the state-federal workhorse of the nation's health system that…

EmbedVideo(4568, 482, 304); On Sept. 16, after five years of trying, a female giant panda at Smithsonian's National Zoo finally gave birth to her second cub. Zookeepers were overjoyed; director Dennis Kelly called it…

The schools in Williston, N.D., are facing a set of unique challenges. A rapidly expanding oil boom has created widespread prosperity in the region, but it has also given rise to a whole host of problems.