Christopher Ingraham

55 corporations had zero federal tax liability in 2020, including household names like Nike, FedEx and Dish Network, analysis finds.

The study’s author believes there’s a fundamental flaw in the assessment process: When estimating home values, assessors don’t have the same information as buyers and sellers.

The bulk of a new book explores how that happened and how the trend might be reversed.

Americans spent $5.4 billion on legal medical and recreational marijuana last year, according to new estimates. To put that number in perspective, that's more money than spent on Doritos, Cheetos and Funyuns combined in 2015.

Marijuana advocates hoping for a substantial shift in federal marijuana policy in the last year of the Obama administration are likely to be disappointed.

Marijuana advocates hoping for a substantial shift in federal marijuana policy in the last year of the Obama administration are likely to be disappointed.

Of the big three substances -- alcohol, tobacco and marijuana -- kids in the study were the least likely to start using pot before the others.

This type of thing happens more than it should. At least 265 children under the age of 18 picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else with it in 2015, according to numbers compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown USA.

This year will go down in the record books as one of the safest for police officers in recorded history, according to data released this week from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. There were 42 fatal shootings of police officers in 2015, down 14 percent from 2014, according to the organization.

In 2014, there were 9.6 deaths from these alcohol-induced causes per 100,000 people, an increase of 37 percent since 2002.

Alcohol is killing Americans at a rate not seen in at least 35 years, according to new federal data. Last year, more than 30,700 Americans died from alcohol-induced causes, including alcohol poisoning and cirrhosis, which is primarily caused by alcohol use.

For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate, according to new mortality data released this month by the CDC.

In 2015 so far, 26 police dogs have been killed in the line of duty -- a number that's up sharply over the previous two years.

Fifty eight percent of Americans say that the use of marijuana should be legal, a seven-point year-over-year increase.

Roughly once a week this year, on average, a small child has found a gun, pointed it at himself or someone else, and pulled the trigger.