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Guantanamo detainee Fayiz al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti aid worker, lost 20 pounds taking part in a month-long hunger strike to protest his indefinite detention and conditions of his confinement. …

Liquidators Recruited by Ads In the titanic struggle to bring to closure the dangerous situation at Fukushima Nuclear Plant No1, there are many signs that TEPCO is …

A protester gestures from an upper floor of the rotunda at the State Capitol building, in Madison, Wis., February 27, 2011. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times) …

Push for Anti-Abortion Bills at the State Level Continues

The nation’s main firefighters’ union, long a strong supporter of Democratic candidates, announced on Tuesday that it would indefinitely suspend all contributions to federal candidates out of frustration with …

Cairo - Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the …

North Canton, Ohio - In this former company town, an aging smokestack marked with “Hoover” in tall white letters stands like a tombstone over the union jobs lost when …

Exxon Scores Huge Profits as Gas Prices Rise Gas prices are up, and so are Big Oil's profit margins. Oil giant ExxonMobil posted a $10.65 billion …

Marie Nicoles Meus with her four-month-old daughter, Jousely Pierre, in the doorway of a mud-walled hut she shares with another family in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, April 8, 2011. Meus and …

The top regulator of offshore drilling said this week that his agency is exploring expanding its oversight to include thousands of contractors on offshore rigs. The majority of offshore …