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London - Britain’s top police official resigned on Sunday, the latest casualty of the phone-hacking scandal engulfing British public life, just hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive …

London - The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Services, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post on Sunday just hours after his officers arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of …

Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …

In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …

Antonio and Jocelyn Sanchez. (Photos: David Bacon) Driving south out of Silicon Valley, the big electronics plants gradually disappear, along with the sprawling developments that house their …

Scott Bloch, the former special counsel to President George W. Bush, requested to withdraw his guilty plea to a misdemeanor contempt of Congress charge. (Photo: U.S. Office of Special …

(Photo: A6U571N) There’s an old adage that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. That seems to be the unofficial motto of the …

Obama's 2011 budget includes requests to fund a more comprehensive, integrated new ocean policy, including $12 million for a massive marine spatial planning program. (Photo: Mister.Tee) Portland, …

Demonstrators on the American boat, “The Audacity of Hope” at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. (Photo: Nadia Shira Cohen / The New York Times) …

A vendor arranges Egyptian flags before a morning prayer service at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, July 11, 2011. Almost six months after the Egypt revolution that successfully saw the …