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Washington - Presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry released his economic plan Friday, promising that an energy-centric program to expand offshore drilling and domestic oil and gas exploration would …

President Felipe Calderon of Mexico during an interview at the Los Pinos in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2011. As the twilight of his presidency sets in, Calderon is striving …

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran prepares to address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2010. (Photo: Josh Haner / The New York Times) Washington - …

Joe Kostmayer undergoes dialysis at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., March 10, 2011. (Photo: Noah Berger / The New York Times) The Administration’s decision …

The US Capitol Building, Washington DC. (Photo: drewsaunders) Wall Street did not engage in reckless financial behavior — which plunged 64 million people worldwide into extreme poverty …

In American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, author Colin Woodard outlines eleven culturally distinct regions in the United States. (Image: Viking Adult) …

Demonstrators with Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park react to the news that a scheduled clean up was cancelled, in New York, Oct. 14, 2011. (Photo: Victor Blue / …

Jo Ann De Quattro. (Photos: Rob Corsini) "41 percent of children in America live in poverty and four trillion dollars paid for war, is the greatest obscenity …

(Image: Microcosm Publishing) Decades after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, Cambodian children still find human bones in their schoolyards. Past the tourist thoroughfares, where street …

The United States ‘covert’ drone war in Pakistan reached a new milestone today with the 300th attack on alleged militants in the country’s tribal areas, according to research by …