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Fishing and conservation groups filed a lawsuit on June 3 seeking to block a secret backroom deal - known as the “Monterey Amendments” - signed by five water contractors, …

Usually, when someone refers to a place as a “US colony,” they are making an analogy, suggesting that US influence somewhere is so strong, and the indigenous residents of …

Washington - People who come to the U.S. seeking asylum from persecution are struggling while their cases stall in the backlogged dockets of the nation's immigration courts. As a …

Washington - Thirty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, a joint U.S.-Vietnamese panel endorsed a 10-year, 300-million-dollar “plan of action” to deal with the deadly health and …

Washington - Despite the pleas of some conservative politicians that parallels should not be drawn between the oil spreading over the Gulf of Mexico and the need to transition …

Washington - Even though George Washington laid the ceremonial first brick of the U.S. Capitol, the people that did most of the dangerous, back-breaking construction under the hot sun …

San Francisco - The lead attorney defending Proposition 8 on the final day of a historic federal trial Wednesday said that gays have been subjected to a “shameful history” …

If the right-wing chorus insists that the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is “Obama's Katrina,” then let us hope the president will make the most of …

Doudou Pierre is on the coordinating committee of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA). He is also a member of the International Coordinating Committee …

The Spanish American War ended in 1898, but one aspect of the conflict remains unresolved: the status of Puerto Rico. Despite the importance of the issue, it is rarely …