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The non-partisan budget office also estimated that repealing "Obamacare" would increase the deficit by $109 billion.

Smokers who exercised just a little bit had an easier time quitting and were less likely to relapse, new research says. Even smokers who can't quit are less likely to die if they walk 15 minutes a day.

The court ruling comes on the heels of a report that found the state lost more money than it saved when it passed a law requiring welfare recipients to be drug tested. Gov. Rick Scott disagreed with the ruling saying drug testing is "common-sense."

People who are working more than one job are sleeping less than most, as are people working more than 40 hours a week. Divorced and separated people are short on sleep, too. Working the night shift can wreck your sleep habits and hurt your health.

Up to now, Ireland has been the "poster child of austerity" for the way its people have accepted some tough remedies. But thousands protested over the weekend and about half of households didn't register to pay a new tax.

The GSA conference with the clown, comedian and mind reader is the kind of embarrassing story any administration wants to avoid on its watch, especially at a time of fiscal austerity when federal workers are coming under attack from some conservatives and a general election looms for a president seeking a second term.

Syrians vote on a new draft constitution Sunday though the opposition has called for a boycott. Violence has been reported across the country. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about the latest on the bombardment of Homs and other developments in Syria.

Lugar sold his Indiana home in 1977, when he was first elected to Congress and moved to Washington.

California transportation officials say it will take more work — and up to $10 million — to get the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ready for its planned grand opening on Labor Day. A problem arose after 32 massive steel bolts broke when they were tightened to anchor part of the bridge's seismic safety system.

"I want him to suffer," Onil Castro tells CNN about his brother Ariel, who is accused of kidnapping three young women and holding them captive in his home for about a decade. Onil and Pedro Castro, another brother, say they knew nothing about what was allegedly happening inside their brother's home.