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The Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR,) established by Congress in 2008 to evaluate the efficiency of reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, has issued a glowing report on …

War on Drugs Has Failed

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Leni Haunga, an immigrant from Tonga, said that without the childcare services she had received at a homeless shelter, her family would not have gotten back on …

Under a federally funded program, Chicago-based CNA Financial Corp. provides insurance coverage to contractors killed or injured while working overseas for the United States. The slain translators were helping …

Is David Coleman Headley telling the truth? That question will continue to hover over a packed courtroom in Chicago this week as the 50-year-old Pakistani-American …

Sana, Yemen - Heavy shelling north of Yemen’s capital threatened to close the main international airport Thursday as government troops and opposition tribesmen appeared to escalate bloody street battles …

Early in the morning on May 24, in the northern Brazilian Amazon, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva got onto a …

Activists Savitri D. and the Rev. Billy Talen showed up, child in hand, to Friday's protest against the acquittal of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, ready …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: mintz242, Thomas Hawk) Mobile company Sprint on Tuesday formally requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed merger with …

House Plans to Increase Military Spending Despite Calls for Cuts The Hill reports that the House Appropriations Committee created a Pentagon spending measure that would significantly increase …