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In today's On the News segment: If the minimum wage had kept up with inflation since 2009, American workers would have earned another $6 billion over the last five …

The federal government has made some efforts to reduce the violence, but there is a long way to go before indigenous women are afforded their full civil rights.

A single mom working two jobs should know if her hours are being canceled before she arranges for daycare and drives halfway across town to show up at work.

The US, EU countries, and a score of other States have begun negotiations on trade in services in Geneva. Distinguishing mark: these dealings are to remain secret for five …

Raed, 31, knew that his cousin had been killed by an Israeli sniper in Gaza earlier that day, leaving behind a wife and six children.

In a new study of scientific researchers, 64 percent of participants surveyed said they were sexually harassed or assaulted while doing fieldwork.

The recognition of indigenous peoples' “ownership” of land in some Latin American countries has proved to be a disguised path to capitalist exploitation.

Meet five women who are bearing the burden of conflict in Syria and persevering in spite of it.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 authorized the EPA to protect the waters of the United States from dangerous and or illegal pollution. But that term has been the …

Washington ignored plentiful warnings that the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars would fail to convince Afghans to embrace protein-rich soy products.