Your sports page may have recently induced an unpleasant sense of déjà vu. A pro football star, by all accounts, seemed caught in a spiral of depression.

More than 300 confirmed cholera cases have been registered in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak began on 20 August, with almost 50 percent of the cases occurring in the past week.

When politicians start to bandy about buzzwords, you know we're in trouble. And when it's McCain talking about health care and the buzzwords are "consumer choice" and "competition," that trouble is deep, very, very deep.

As many as 27 million American workers can expect to lose their employment-sponsored health care benefits if John McCain's health care proposals become law, a new report by the Economic Policy Institute's Policy Center showed this week.

More than 65,000 people submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, rejecting new Bush administration rules that women's health care advocates believe could jeopardize women's access to quality health care.

With the collapse of Wall Street on everyone's mind, John McCain may have made a huge mistake publishing an article in the current issue of Contingencies magazine calling for the deregulation of the health insurance industry.

The number of confirmed cases of cholera has risen to 107 in central and southern parts of the country, a Health Ministry spokesman said on 16 September.

After weeks of negative campaigning and mud-slinging, John McCain made a stunning admission this week. During a presidential forum Sept. 11th, McCain said, "It's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have."

As moderate elements of the Republican Party melt away from supporting the Bush legacy and John McCain, more and more of the hardcore and extremist forces and voices in the Republican Party have eagerly stepped forward.

John McCain is pushing the idea of privatizing veterans' health care. He advanced the idea in recent stump speeches, even after media and congressional investigations in 2007 uncovered how underfunding and privatization of services at some of the country's top military hospitals caused poor care, neglect, and other dangerous conditions for wounded veterans.

"If Palin has two thoughts about foreign policy, she's managed to keep them to herself. Ditto health care. National energy policy. Fiscal policy. You could make a long list, but I'll stop there..."

This Labor Day, working people are vowing to increase the struggle to end Bush administration and Republican Party policies that have presided over the second recession in seven years and have failed to bring needed relief.

People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled "Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America," which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.

Speaking before a crowd of close to 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field and accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for supporting and seeking to continue the Bush administration's policies.

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.

Recently it’s been revealed that the federal government has been under-estimating the number of American citizens infected with the AIDS virus.

A recent TV ad by the McCain campaign titled "Debra" appears to be suggesting that not only is John McCain a "maverick," but that he is also more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush.

The same day Barack Obama announced his decision to select Joe Biden as his running mate, three major national women's health and advocacy organizations expressed strong approval of the decision.

Despite a public outcry, which included over 325,000 signatures on a petition, the Bush administration has moved forward with new Health and Human Services regulations that deliberately confuse birth control with abortion.

Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.