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Calls for constitutional reform follow investigation into financial collapse; bankers, former government ministers face possibility of jail time. Last month, the publication of an Icelandic Parliamentary report commissioned "to …

Washington - This week's primaries should have been good news for Democrats. Instead, a stray comment from an Obama aide briefly threatened a civil war in the Democratic Party, …

Torture is no longer a pressing concern for the American public, if it ever was. The country's attention has understandably turned to lost jobs, costly health care and spilled …

Over the last year, there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” torture program, there was a related program experimenting with …

Washington - A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and …

I am not going to try and defend the comments Helen Thomas made about getting the Jews out of Palestine and sending them to Germany and Poland; that was …

In the primary results Wednesday, three high-profile legislator bypassed the predicted anti-incumbent rage in what may mark a turning point in the midterm campaign season. On the Republican …

Fifty-one days after oil began gushing out of the ocean floor and into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress has extended a request that, in political parlance, is more of …

Many advocates of nuclear disarmament felt considerable elation at the election of Barack Obama in 2008. In the previous years, the Bush administration had scrapped the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, …

A court in Bhupol, India sentenced seven Union Carbide officials to two years in prison for criminal negligence surrounding a 1984 pesticide plant leak that killed 3,500 people instantly …