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Charity Crowell, 9, checks her school supplies at the trailer where she lives with her family in Asheville, N.C. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) …

Beirut, Lebanon - Despite a continuing government crackdown, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of several Syrian cities on Friday, as protesters seemed intent on showing visiting …

A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press out yesterday shows that “progressive” is the most positively viewed political label in America, with …

Baghdad - Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President …

(Photo: Dave 77459 / Flickr) Massive social changes in the US labor force and in commerce have transformed the economy and powerfully affected personal relationships. Since 1970, …

(Photo: james_gordon_los_angeles / Flickr) I wasn’t going to look at the news on Christmas Day. I had just had successfully prepared a Christmas Eve dinner for my …

Manchester, New Hampshire - No matter what happens in Iowa, Mitt Romney has a safety net in New Hampshire. And that could rank as the year's most …

Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. …

(Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a District judge in Manhattan Friday …

Candidates for the Repub­lican presi­denti­al nomin­ation engag­ed in a debat­e at Fox News forum­. (Photo: Todd Heisl­er / Th­e New York Times­) One crucial thing you need …