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On Sunday, August 21, dozens of people continued the two-week long daily sit-in at the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. (Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj …

Melbourne - Concern is growing for the mental health of thousands of people locked up indefinitely in this country’s immigration detention system. In July, the office of …

Washington - In December 2008, former Army Pvt. Ronald Gray was on the brink of becoming the first military execution in almost 50 years. The rapist and …

Tears streaming down her face, Brandi Brown admitted that she never thought the day would come when she would graduate. But earlier this month, thanks to the efforts of …

Washington - When an expensive unmanned aircraft built by Lockheed Martin Corporation, a U.S. defence contractor, disappeared during a U.S. military test flight off the Pacific coast earlier this …

Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category Two storm, and is expected to track a path of destruction up the densely populated Atlantic …

(Image: JR / Truthout) One night last month, Mitt Romney strode into a dining room above Central Park that was packed with dozens of his wealthiest supporters, …

Protesters opposing the Islamic center near ground zero rally in downtown New York, Aug. 22, 2010. (Photo: James Estrin / The New York Times) Following a six-month …

Washington - A drone operated by the Central Intelligence Agency killed al Qaeda’s second-ranking figure in the mountains of Pakistan earlier this month, American and Pakistani officials said on …

President Felipe Calderon. (Photo: Gobierno Federal / Flickr) Mexico City - His voice cracking with emotion, President Felipe Calderon said Friday that the United States bore some …