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The FDA, determining Thursday that studies show no conclusive link between attention disorders and artificial food dyes like Red #40, may have saved us from the irony of potentially toxic processed food additives today. That irony? Natural food dyes cost more, and are less shelf-stable, so bans --...

Though most Americans wish that Congress would rein in excessive pay on Wall Street, that won't happen while the huge campaign contributions keep flowing. And the financial industry's big money shell game drains away something more precious from our society than money -- it siphons off talent.

San Francisco's proposed ban on toys in McDonald's Happy Meals and other kids' meals unless the food meets certain nutritional guidelines has been expanded to include breakfast as well. The changed proposal now targets meals including breakfast and also adds another requirement that if bread is...

A deeply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided that the Constitution's Second Amendment gives all Americans the individual right to keep and bear arms.

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who overturned the Obama administration's temporary ban on deep-water offshore oil drilling, has investments in oil industry companies including Ocean Energy, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy and Halliburton.

Investors would be wise to look past the short-selling ban to the growing regulatory fervor that's catching on in Europe. None of this can be good for the financial sector.

Daiso, a huge Japanese-owned retail chain with some 3,000 stores worldwide,has been accused of repeatedly violating federal safety laws while importing toys and other children's goods from China and Vietnam. The company has agreed to pay a $2 million penalty and, in an extraordinary move, was...

Yet again the Golden State has set a de facto national environmental policy. It came this time when officials moved on Nov. 18 to ban sales of all big-screen TVs in California after 2010 if the sets don't meet state energy efficiency requirements. The ban has been brewing for several months now as...

Airline passengers are used to being told by flight attendants that it's time to put away their laptop computers. Now, the pilots of American (AMR), Delta (DAL) and other airlines may hear a similar message from Congress, which is considering banning the use of laptops and other electronic devices...

We've all encountered them. At some time in our Internet lives, we've each landed in a safe, or even familiar, website, when suddenly a blaring warning message has appeared. We were then informed that our computer was being assaulted by any number of nasty viruses, spy ware programs, or Trojan...