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In hosting a huge computing cloud for the CIA's secrets, Amazon now has “a digital place where data for mass surveillance and perpetual war are converging.”

This week marks the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy hitting the New York City region.

A debate is intensifying in the United States over quarantining health care workers who return from West Africa but do not show signs of Ebola.

When the original thirty-four people started walking from Port of Wilmington, Los Angeles, they had no idea that walking across the country would turn into a life-changing experience.

The US Air Force says it is not halting its use of Depleted Uranium weapons, has recently sent them to the Middle East, and is prepared to use them.

Voting is now underway in Texas, a state with one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation.

The policies that had led to the stunning growth of its garment industry had so tarnished the “Made in Bangladesh” label that they were no longer sustainable.

Post Carbon Institute has published a report and multiple related resources calling into question the production statistics touted by promoters of “fracking.”

In today's On the News segment: NPR is supposed to be our national public radio, but they're barely covering climate issues that are in the public's interest, and more.

Salt Lake City's Housing First initiative has reduced chronic homelessness by 72 percent. Now other cities are giving it a try.