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(Photo: Sergio Alvarez / Flickr) If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you’d be seeing a …

On Sunday evening, President Obama and Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, announced they had reached an agreement on cutting $1 trillion in spending in …

Beirut, Lebanon - Syrian security forces bombed the central city of Hama for a second day on Monday as the government pressed its campaign to crush a four-month-old popular …

Please read these words of an American woman living in Norway: "Our public officials have asked us to put compassion first, to nurture each other, …

As we get the final details of the debt ceiling deal between President Obama and Congress, we still have to wait for the verdict of the credit rating agencies. …

When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen's popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts evidently failed, and the revolution continued unabated. …

It was seen as one of the most distressing effects of climate change ever recorded: polar bears dying of exhaustion after being stranded between melting patches of Arctic sea …

Author Michelle Alexander details 21st Century Jim Crow in her book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness.” (Image: The New Press) …

President Barack Obama during a meeting with Congressional leaders concerning the nation's debt ceiling, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington on July 11, 2011. From …

A video captured by a woman trying to obtain an ID so that her son can vote under new GOP laws in Wisconsin reveals some of the hurdles legal …