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Washington - The federal government didn't exhaust all its options before it committed tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars to bail out the American International Group during the height …

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 14-year-old Mexican boy on June 7. At RaceWire, Julianne Hing reports that “Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca [was] on the Mexican side …

It's hard to call the outcomes of recent primaries a “voter uprising.” It looks more like democracy in action than a series of coup d'etats. Replacing party establishment favorites …

“Birdology: Adventures With a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur” By Sy …

A slogan of Haiti's popular movement - a grouping of many organized sectors, from community-based journalists, to cooperative street vendors, to children's rights advocates - is "Another Haiti Is …

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 …