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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 …

Los Angeles - Cellphone users may be at increased risk for two types of rare cancers and should try to reduce their exposure to the energy emitted by the …

Sanaa, Yemen - After four months of widespread anti-government demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and mounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be …

Sydney - Germany will close down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to reports out Monday, as fallout from Japan’s disaster continues more than two months …

Protesters in Calaca, Batangas Philippines with banners reading “NO to Calaca Coal Power Plant!” (Photo: 350.org) In the United States and Europe, the triple whammy of recession, …