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Despite US-backed violence against them, indigenous communities are fighting back as multinational corporations encroach on their lands.

The ACA appears to be allowing workers to opt for part-time jobs and older workers to retire early.

The great monarch migration is in peril, a victim of rampant herbicide use in faraway corn and soybean fields, extreme weather, a tiny microbial pathogen and deforestation. Monarch butterfly …

Activists courted arrest in Harrisburg, Illinois, to stop Peabody Energy from continuing logging operations related to strip mine expansion.

In Pennsylvania, opponents of gas drilling say regulators are slow and unprepared in responding to air quality complaints.

Black students are more likely than other racial groups to be suspended from US public schools, even as preschoolers.

International human rights groups have strongly denounced Monday's sentencing by an Egyptian court of 529 Islamists to death for a riot in which one policeman was killed.

Campaign finance watchdogs now estimate that a single wealthy donor could spread up to $3.6 million during a single election cycle.

In today's On the News segment: Three decades of Reaganomics has left half of our entire nation in poverty; rather than waiting on Congress, last week, the Connecticut General …

Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …