Researchers are learning more about AIDS, although the epidemic still rages out of control in much of the world.

Negotiated agreements have produced a shaky peace between the factions in Northern Ireland and between the Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, raising hopes for a permanent decline in hostilities.

As Americans count their blessings on Thanksgiving Day, it would be appropriate if they looked at the freedoms and opportunities that have been handed down from the Founding Fathers.

This Member would like to commend to his colleagues this November 26, 1998, Omaha World Herald editorial.

The State of the Union address has become a long, shallow and predictable bit of political theater.

Nothing in the Constitution says a president must deliver a prime-time, televised speech from the House of Representatives every year.

It has degenerated into the kind of exaggerated conduct that one would expect to find in an old-fashioned melodrama.

This Member strongly commends to the attention of his colleagues an editorial found in the January 5, 1999, edition of the Omaha World Herald entitled, 'Discreet State of Union Would Do.'

The world has enough food. Indeed, surpluses are a bigger problem than hunger in some places.

Overpopulation is at the root of many other problems, including deprivation, environmental degradation, illegal immigration and disease.

a number of the Prairie Island charter's provisions were particularly paternalistic and inappropriate for effective management of tribal resources.

a number of the Prairie Island charter's provisions were particularly paternalistic and inappropriate for effective management of tribal resources.