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(Photo: Drew Thomas / Flickr) The Justice Department announced Thursday that it was opening a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two terrorism suspects in CIA …

Just hours before a looming midnight deadline on Monday, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed a state bill mandating an abortion waiting period and pre-abortion counseling. But the fight …

Cairo - As Moroccans head to the polls to vote in a referendum on reforms offered by King Mohammed VI in the wake of the Arab Spring, the debate …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday as the sexual assault case against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that …

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. (Photo: Drew Angerer / The New York Times) TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…

Michigan is shaping up to be the next big battleground in the Republican-led war on unions and public workers' rights. In March, the state's Republican governor Rick …

(Photo: r0b0r0b / Flickr) The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business. The bailout was supposed to keep credit flowing to Main Street, …

(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: kitsu / Flickr) Seventeen-year-old Hillary Transue did what lots of 17-year-olds do: Got into mischief. Hillary's mischief was composing a MySpace …

Chicago - Minnesota began what is expected to become the broadest shutdown of state services in its history early Friday, after Republicans and Democrats there failed to agree on …

Update June 30, 5:31 p.m.: New York's Department of Environmental Conservation just announced it will recommend prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing in and around the watersheds serving New York City …