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Regularly playing music in groups may improve children's ability to empathise with others suggests a study.

Warring parents play the courts system to deny access to their ex-partners, says Children's Minister Tim Loughton.

School pupils in Glasgow who buy lunch outside school are likely to be consuming too much energy, fat and salt, a survey finds.

Retail sales in Scotland remained weak in May, although the warm weather at the end of the month boosted food sales.

It's the contextualization of the caveats in the complex, nuanced narrative, stupid.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Arizona Supreme Court justice was confirmed as a U.S. appellate judge Tuesday, despite complaints from conservatives that he influenced the Roe v. Wade ruling while a law clerk four decades ago....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Federal agents raided a sprawling ranch in Oklahoma and a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico on Tuesday, alleging the brother of a high-ranking official in a Mexican drug cartel used a horse-breeding operation to launder money....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Federal agents raided a sprawling ranch in Oklahoma and a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico on Tuesday, alleging the brother of a high-ranking official in a Mexican drug cartel used a horse-breeding operation to launder money....

A council issues an apology after details of thousands of childminders were "inadvertently" sent to a number of childcare providers.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker donned a white apron to man the grill at a bipartisan picnic that had the air of an international peace conference, with a news helicopter circling overhead, protesters yelling outside the gates and lawmakers ushered onto the grounds under tight security....

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond tells the Leveson Inquiry into press standards that his bank account was accessed by the Observer newspaper.

The new rule on 'gainful employment' exempts nonprofit schools.

A vote to protect 5,000 farmers—or the general welfare.

Some Republicans try to scuttle 401(k)-style reform.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The dozen Washingtonians who will decide Roger Clemens' fate heard a day of closing arguments stuffed with attention-getting sound bites. The eight women and four men who mostly care little about baseball then began deliberations Tuesday that will impact one of the most successful pitchers of his generation - and, in a way, the criminal pursuit of athletes accused of illegal doping....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jurors have resumed deliberations in the Roger Clemens perjury trial following a four-day break....

Do individuals serve the military or does the military serve them?

Regulators need to know the options in advance if we are to avoid future bailouts.

CNN's Chad Myers explains the significance of NASA's new mission that aims to get a better understanding of black holes.