The Congressionally chartered Institute of Medicine said in a high-profile report yesterday that the nation must reach universal health care coverage by 2010.

Asthma hospitalization rates for kids are lower than they have been since the city started collecting the data in 1984.

As the state’s poverty rate climbs and low-wage jobs expand, the minimum wage–$5.15 an hour—has less buying power than it has had since the 1940s.

Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist attacked a law passed last spring that limits judges’ ability to depart from sentencing guidelines.

About 63.8 million people did volunteer work between September 2002 and 2003, a six percent increase from the previous year.