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President Obama’s regulation mandating that health insurance plans offer free birth control is an issue that most directly affects women. And yet, the cable news chatter over this controversy …

The Obama administration is demanding education reform from Congress, but instead of waiting for lawmakers to act, President Obama granted waivers to ten states on Thursday allowing them to …

Silent in flannel shirts and ponytails, farmers from Saskatchewan and South Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts lined the walls of a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, as their …

JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson spoke out this morning in defense of the company’s new partnership with Ellen DeGeneres. The conservative group One Million Moms has called for a …

Thousands of protesters gathered at Brooklyn Tech High School yesterday evening to oppose 25 pending school closures, 13 of which are scheduled to occur in Brooklyn. …

Thom Hartmann here  - on the news…   You need to know this.  The Republican Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is under investigation for breaking insider-trading laws.  …

Yesterday, 49 states joined the federal government in announcing a $26 billion settlement with five of the nation’s biggest banks over the banks’ foreclosure fraud abuses. The money from …

Atrazine is an herbicide primarily manufactured by the multinational conglomerate Syngenta and commonly used on commodity crops, forests, and golf courses. Its potential harmful effects on human health have …

Decebal “John” Bilan. (Photo: Rick Smith / Flickr) On October 12, Decebal Bilan, who went by John while he was in the United States, first visited Occupy …

  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a construction and operating licenseto Southern Co. for two reactors to be added to its Plant Vogtle facility in Georgia. The OK is …