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Democracy Now! reports a man who was bullied, and the only African-American at his workplace in Connecticut, shot and killed nine people including himself in a gun-fire attack on …

Oh, them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government's special …

Today's historic Kenya referendum over whether to back a new Constitution sparks fresh memories of the ethnic clashes that killed more than 1,300 people in the wake of the …

Cutting the federal deficit is a hot topic these days, and some kind of action seems certain. Congress is due to take up taxes for the first time in …

They call them “anchor babies.” Not “God's children,” you understand. There'll be no celebrating these infants as the joyful proof that each was “a baby, not a choice.” These …

July was the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan. In Iraq, while political factions continue a five-month squabble over who will lead the government, insurgent violence …

In March of 2003, a pretend president launched a war of choice to pretend he was protecting America. The war, called Operation Iraqi Freedom, began under the premise that …

On July 20, I decided to try to get behind the media blockade of oil clean-up operations at Grand Isle, Louisiana. Grand Isle is the only inhabited island in …

Try to fit these facts together: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 …

BP appears to be delaying decisions about the validity of many claims for damages from the Gulf oil spill, leaving claimants frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and confusing requests for …