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Yesterday, a Deutsche Bank branch in Atlanta had requested the eviction of Vita Lee, a 103-year-old Atlanta woman, and her 83-year-old daughter. Both were terrified of being removed from …

Cairo - As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation. …

Last Tuesday, the FCC called for an “administrative hearing” on the AT&T/T-Mobile merger that signaled the agency’s opposition to the deal. The next day AT&T responded that …

Law enforcement officials across Alabama were unsure how they would enforce — let alone pay for — HB 56, the state’s draconian immigration law, when it went into effect. …

Atlanta - At least 36 states across the U.S. are proposing laws that would require applicants for and recipients of a variety of public aid programs to undergo drug …

Washington - The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences — at least for now — to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen …

Cairo - Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster …

United Nations - Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around …

Washington - Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his …

(Photo: Nick Surgey of Common Cause) What do you get for the corporation that has everything? More of the same—money, power, and influence. That’s the mission and …