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Early in the morning on May 24, in the northern Brazilian Amazon, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva got onto a …

Activists Savitri D. and the Rev. Billy Talen showed up, child in hand, to Friday's protest against the acquittal of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, ready …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: mintz242, Thomas Hawk) Mobile company Sprint on Tuesday formally requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed merger with …

House Plans to Increase Military Spending Despite Calls for Cuts The Hill reports that the House Appropriations Committee created a Pentagon spending measure that would significantly increase …

Los Angeles - Cellphone users may be at increased risk for two types of rare cancers and should try to reduce their exposure to the energy emitted by the …

Sanaa, Yemen - After four months of widespread anti-government demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and mounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be …

Sydney - Germany will close down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to reports out Monday, as fallout from Japan’s disaster continues more than two months …

Protesters in Calaca, Batangas Philippines with banners reading "NO to Calaca Coal Power Plant!" (Photo: 350.org) In the United States and Europe, the triple whammy of recession, …

Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified [PDF] the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court …

The field of battle expanded again in Yemen on Tuesday as a cease-fire between government forces and opposition tribesmen in the capital broke down, renewing fears that the country's …