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Managua, Nicaragua — Voting results tallied early Monday gave Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega a resounding re-election victory but international election observers reported that they had detected serious irregularities in …

Alabama will not let the battle over its breathtakingly harsh anti-immigrant law, HB 56, be fought just in the courts. In a flurry of letters exchanged late …

The Solyndra debacle is proving an irresistible target for Republicans and their allies—especially as the election cycle gets underway. The conservative Americans for Prosperity, a group established …

It's no secret: Over the last year, state legislatures — largely those run by Republicans — have taken up and in many cases passed a series of laws that …

Niamey, Niger - It was January 2009, and Yaou Mahaman, a personable dark-skinned Tuareg tour guide from Niger, was coming off a lucrative week. His three car convoy carrying …

Rasha Azab leads a protest outside the military court in Cairo. (Photo: Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Egypt, 2011) One of …

Grand Rapids, Michigan - Like many states and local governments struggling to cut costs, Michigan hopes to replace some government employees with contract workers who will do the same …

In today's On the News segment: The Koch brothers got occupied, Senate Democrats make their fourth try at passing a portion of the president's American Jobs Act, Texas may …

Tokyo - Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown. …

“We don’t know how many people it takes to encircle the White House, but we’re about to find out,” Bill McKibben told a crowd of over 12,000 gathered in …