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ColorLines magazine just released their list "10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013"—and it is impressive. In a year when George Zimmerman was permitted to legally lynch Trayvon Martin, it …

Fort Worth, which sits on top of the vast Barnett Shale, is the first major city in America to allow extensive fracking within the city limits.

House and Senate negotiators are close to a deal on “fast-tracking” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and more.

The Guardian published ALEC documents demonstrating that the group has recently lost around 60 corporate members, largely as a result of its role in facilitating corporate influence over state …

Prisons are struggling to cope with the growing number of elderly and ill inmates incarcerated in the US.

The US military's refusal to cooperate with the investigation of civilian deaths in Nerkh, a district of Wardak in Afghanistan, has put a strain on the pact ensuring the …

Sexual exploitation of minors by foreign logging workers has been identified in four of the nine provinces in the Solomon Islands, namely Makira, Isabel, Western and Malaita.

A year after a French study appeared to link GMOs and cancer, a respected American journal has retracted the study under pressure, reigniting a global debate about biotechnology's affect …

In Denton, Texas, 40 miles northwest of Dallas, residents and students at the University of North Texas are getting a free course in what it's like to live in …

As biotech firms have attempted to build a plant in Argentina, construction was brought to a halt in October by protests and legal action by local residents, who have …