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Airtime: Friday, March 5, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).

I finally finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's latest brilliant novel, “The Lacuna,” and it's the kind of book that engenders discussion on a wide variety of important topics. For those …

US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu returned from China last July with a sober understanding of the degree to which China had advanced in …

Is this minuscule nation, among the least populated in the world (roughly 700,000 inhabitants), stuck between two of the most densely populated countries in the world (India and China), …

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) …

Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it's never too soon to think about the …

Baghdad, Iraq - Three powerful suicide bombings killed at least 33 people and injured more than 50 others in the restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, authorities said, with …

The view from the busy two-lane road is spectacular: tall limestone mountains rising to the east and the turquoise Caribbean shimmering to the west. But this is no tourist …

Defense Department agencies improperly collected and disseminated intelligence on Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group called the National Alliance, an Air Force briefing improperly included intelligence on an …

Washington - By a vote of 78 to 19, the Senate Tuesday night passed funding to revive government programs that aid jobless people, highway projects and other initiatives that …