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Rio De Janeiro - In designing a new immigration policy, Brazil is caught between the need to attract skilled workers and professionals in order to meet the challenges posed …

Phoenix - Tony Diaz, aka “El Librotraficante” (or book smuggler) is arriving in Tucson on Friday with a truckload of Mexican-American books that were effectively banned from the Tucson …

Police officers prepare to detain protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a rally at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. Scores of Occupy Wall Street …

Police detain a man and woman during a rally of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. The demonstration was in celebration of …

A man is arrested outside after the St. Charles Caucus was shut down at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri, on March 17, 2012. The event …

In the space of a minute, federal prison worker Jason Unwin was twice attacked by a furious, muscle-bound inmate on Dec. 21, 2010. …

Last May, AFL-CIO President Trumka declared labor’s political independence by pledging to use the power of Super PACS to reach out to nonunion voters and build labor's own political …

A soldier identified as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, appeared in this photo and in an article in High Desert Warrior, a military Web site, in 2011. (Photo: Spc. …

Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this.  The largest online protest in the history of the Internet may have derailed SOPA and PIPA earlier …

Matt Taibbi has a good piece on the important and public resignation of a former Goldman executive, Greg Smith. The essence of Smith’s piece is …