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A mysterious oil spill in south Trinidad is wreaking havoc on homes and wildlife in the area.

Journalist and author David Cay Johnston says that private federal contractors need better oversight and should be banned from contributing to election campaigns.

In a move that sent shockwaves through the American Jewish community, the Hillel chapter at Philadelphia's Swarthmore College declared in an open letter last week that it would not …

As the Syrian war intensifies sectarian clashes in Lebanonu2019s northern coastal city Tripoli, Palestinians in the area worriedly watch the violence from the sidelines.

It's been a trying year for James Sawyer, who had two ruined lungs replaced in the space of seven months. Mounting medical expenses only add to his stress.

Julia Trigg-Crawford claims that the state of Texas has no process to determine whether projects that seize landowners' property are really in the public benefit.

Protests against tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook for encouraging eviction, gentrification and displacement in San Francisco's working-class neighborhoods picked up steam with protests on both sides of the …

Medicare's massive drug program has a process so convoluted and poorly managed that fraud flourishes, giving rise to elaborate schemes that quickly siphon away millions of dollars.

Activists have launched a new campaign to challenge Israeli laws which prevent many Palestinians from marrying each other.

The past few years have been a period of unprecedented turmoil for the hospital industry. Now, a new report confirms that Catholic hospitals are emerging as one of the …