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The nation’s main firefighters’ union, long a strong supporter of Democratic candidates, announced on Tuesday that it would indefinitely suspend all contributions to federal candidates out of frustration with …

I'm feeling pretty guilty. I hadn't known I was causing billionaires so much suffering. The former co-chair of President Obama's deficit (aka catfood) commission just asked me during a …

April 2011 marked the anniversary of the two most seminal events in American history. Naturally enough, both involve violence.

Schooling is the main target for a simple reason: In the United States public schools account for 50 percent of the state and local budgets and are subject to …

After releasing his certificate of live birth, which is signed by Hawaii state officials and his mother, President Barack Obama speaks to the media at the White House in …

Abdullah Gül, Prime Minister of Turkey, at the World Economic Forum in 2007. (Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr) Vienna - In a study released in early …

Cairo - Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the …

North Canton, Ohio - In this former company town, an aging smokestack marked with “Hoover” in tall white letters stands like a tombstone over the union jobs lost when …

Exxon Scores Huge Profits as Gas Prices Rise Gas prices are up, and so are Big Oil's profit margins. Oil giant ExxonMobil posted a $10.65 billion …

(Photo: MiiiSH) Washington, DC - It is increasingly common to hear prominent American and European central bankers proclaim, with respect to the crisis of 2008-2010, the following …