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The sky had clouded over, a deep grey. Fat raindrops began falling and within minutes the streets were flooded. Eight people would drown in slums on the outskirts of …

The five hundred million dollars in aid the US pledged to Pakistan this week is not the only backing the United States is providing the country considered an …

Washington - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., plans to detail Friday what's expected to be his party's rallying cry in this year's congressional elections: Republicans can't be trusted, …

Now that the violence of Somalia has spilled over into Uganda, western policymakers and pundits are suddenly all aflutter with the urge to ‘do something’. Exactly what that something …

It is all too tempting to dismiss the far-right Teabagger legions and their idiot media allies as nothing more than a band of brain-addled yahoos who regularly make solar …

Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet wholly “Obama's wars,” but the White House's piece-meal, deferential retreat from out-of-control Gulf deluge has become his and his alone. The Big Spill …

Washington - The Obama administration is sticking with plans to allow temporary tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire this year and is open to discussing reductions in …

It's an astonishing development given the history of race relations at the USDA, an agency whose own Commission on Small Farms admitted in 1998 that "the history of discrimination …

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a limited energy bill that responds to the oil spill and promotes energy efficiency. Reid's action is a signal that the …

Recently we met with Captain Louis Skrmetta who runs Ship Island Excursions out of Gulfport, Mississippi. His father Pete came to the US from Croatia in 1904, and began …