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Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon on Tuesday said he would halt the execution of a death row inmate scheduled for next month and that he would allow no more …

A group of North Carolina lawmakers is in Pennsylvania today on a fact-finding mission about the controversial method of extracting natural gas known as fracking — and their tour …

2012 GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today released his latest big idea: a return to Bush-style Social Security privatization. Gingrich has been quite vocal in his support for privatized …

Darcy Parmer ran into trouble soon after she started her job as a fraud analyst at Wells Fargo Bank. Her bosses, she later claimed, were upset that she was, …

Horse-mounted police officers stand guard as Occupy Wall Street protesters stage a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Michael Appleton / The New …

A week after a Canadian company agreed to reroute the Keystone XL oil pipeline out of the fragile Nebraska Sandhills, the initial relief felt by many Nebraskans has been …

A confrontation between Pakistan’s powerful military and the civilian government, over a controversial offer supposedly made by the government to the U.S. administration to rein in the army forces …

The news that the charred remains of a German traveler have been found in the forest of Nuka Hiva, one of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in the …

American “vulture” investors, including a top funder of the Republican Party, have demanded that African nations pay over half a billion dollars for old debts – for which the …

Cairo - Tens of thousands of anti-military protesters streamed into downtown Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday as the nation waited anxiously for the head of the embattled ruling …