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(Photo: Joshua Lott / The New York Times) Phoenix, Ariz. - The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of …

Texas Governor Rick Perry. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Orlando, Fla. - Is Rick Perry about to lose his momentum toward the Republican presidential nomination? …

(Photo: Walmart Stores / Flickr) Forty years after the publication of Diet for a Small Planet, thousands of farmers’ markets are thriving across the United States, countless …

Washington - An impasse between the House and Senate over a bill to keep the government open after Sept. 30 and provide aid to natural disaster victims deepened Friday …

Edward Girardet, author of “Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan.” (Photo: Chelsea Green Publishing) As an award-winning correspondent, Edward Girardet's …

Los Angeles - When the 2010 Census results came in, Latinos seemed poised to exert more political influence in the U.S. than ever before. In the past 10 years, …

The headline above is not what GOP congressional leaders actually said today to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, but they might just as well have used that precise …

In today's On the News segment: Fox so-called News gives a platform to alleged hate group The Federation for American Immigration Reform, Boehner musters up enough support in his …

United Nations - Resisting American pressure, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority formally requested full United Nations membership on Friday as a path toward statehood, rejecting arguments by …

Supporters of Troy Davis react after learning the US Supreme Court declined to reconsider his execution in Jackson, Georgia, September 21, 2011. (Photo: Grant Blankenship / The New York …