Throughout my life, I have thrived in looking for new challenges to take on. After much discussion with my family, I will not be seeking a third term as commissioner. Though I’m eager to tackle many things during my last year in office, I’m ready to take on new challenges.

Instead, she is deferring to lawyers working under Gov. Corbett – who in six weeks will relinquish their offices to a new Democratic administration…

However, Kremlin officials assert that Washington is already supplying Kiev with lethal aid and that Washington is not waiting for the new Republican majority in Congress to pass a bill that will give full assistance to Ukraine not only to conquer the rebels in Donbass but also to recover Crimea from Russia’s annexation.

By year’s end, China’s economic output will reach $17.6 trillion – the U.S. will slide down to second with a mere $17.4 trillion.

Hospital births were more likely to end in cesarean sections or involve episiotomies, a government financed 2011 study carried out by researchers at Oxford University showed. Women were more likely to be given epidurals…

By making the severance tax a legislative priority, Mr. Wolf would start his term with an issue that has bipartisan and public support. The early focus is telling, considering that Mr. Corbett’s missteps in the first year of his term eventually helped defeat him as he sought re-election…

LA TIMES: …“To say that the coalition’s airstrikes are helping us is incorrect,” [Syrian President Bashar ] Assad told the French magazine , which is scheduled to publish the full interview Thursday. “We haven’t sensed any change, especially since Turkey is still providing direct support to ISIS in those areas.”

Cole received a year of house arrest and a year of probation. His criminal record makes it difficult to find a job, he said.

“Now the priority really is to confront ISIS,” Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s finance minister, said in an interview Tuesday after emerging from the cabinet meeting to complete the deal after several days of talks…

When we recall our own memories, we are not extracting a perfect record of our experiences and playing it back verbatim. Most people believe that memory works this way, but it doesn’t. Instead, we are effectively whispering a message from our past to our present, reconstructing it on the fly each time.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time. The divorce rate peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s and has been declining for the three decades since…