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Protesters demonstrating in Oakland, November 5, 2010, against Grant's killing. (Photo: Thomas Hawk) Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant …

Tripoli, Libya - NATO acknowledged Saturday that its aircraft had mistakenly hit a column of rebel military vehicles last week near the Libyan oil port of Brega, and early …

President Barack Obama exits after delivering remarks on Libya at Fort McNair in Washington, on March 28, 2011. Obama attempted to answer what he felt were “legitimate” questions about …

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen, as they leave the US courthouse after being found guilty by a jury. (Photo: Roger Higgins / Wikimedia)

Farmers in Potato Park, Peru, near Cusco, one of the first Peruvian regions to declare themselves “GMO-free zones.” (Photo: iied.org) The use of transgenic or genetically modified …

Israeli soldiers in the port of Ashdod stand next to a ship which was part of a flotilla heading to Gaza, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The wheelchairs in the …

Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice …

Pin Point, Georgia - Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose grandfather once ran a seafood cannery that …

(Photo: Ulrich Joho / Flickr) With Republicans in the Senate and Congress almost unanimous about wanting to terminate Medicare and Medicaid, I think it’s time we all …

Every year since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce publishes its hit list of proposed legislation it labels “job killers.” The list includes legislation to protect consumers, workers …