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President Barack Obama speaks about the role of the US in the Middle East from the State Department in Washington on May 19, 2011. Obama spoke broadly about the …

Investigators Blame Massey's Culture of “Wrongdoing” for Mine Disaster The first investigative report on the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster in West Virginia last spring blames …

Last week, Fox News' Sean Hannity tried to create a controversy over the rapper Common's invitation to a White House poetry event. Citing a lyric in which Common criticized …

Army Sgt. Jerry Price, center, the senior medic of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry, comforts Spc. Donovan Lovelace, right, the 3rd Platoon medic, as a comrade is evacuated …

Dear Friends, If you are anything at all like me, you are in the habit of looking for the bright places in the gloom. They are, all …

Translated by Isabelle Métral and reviewed by Henry Crapo What about her? How's the woman doing? It must be one …

The debt limit has been reached. The President should be demanding a “clean” debt ceiling bill instead of letting hostage-takers force negotiations over their ransom. For deficit reduction the …

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman during a joint press conference in New York, November 12, 2010. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The fix …

Just what Big Oil needed: another victory. First, Congress fails to pass legislation that would respond to last summer's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Then, President …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (pictured), the leader of the International Monetary Fund, appears in court with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman for an arraignment over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a …