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Drug trafficking through Central America is more threatening than ever before. To combat high levels of organized crime, cartel activity, violence, and institutional corruption, Central …

Palmyra, Pa. - Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s …

(Photo: photosteve101 / Flickr) Standard & Poor's downgrades US debt, stock markets gyrate around the world, Sarkozy and Merkel perform yet another empty summit, the Chinese and …

At the heart of Gandhi’s revolution was a new kind of hero: brave, but also compassionate; bold, but also empathetic; powerful, but also unarmed. For millennia, traditional heroism had …

And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures.

This just in: The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee …

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation Teachers, testifies at a hearing about supporting America’s educators on May 4, 2010. (Photo: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Dem …

Zawiyah, Libya — Rebel fighters claimed complete control of a sprawling oil refinery in this coastal town on Thursday, seizing one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s most important assets after …

Washington - It's hard to argue with President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or …

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and Republican presidential candidate. (Photo: Erich Schlegel / The New York Times.) Texas has been adding jobs faster than the rest …