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Approximately 70 percent of women incarcerated in the Americas are in prison for non-violent micro-trafficking offenses.

Energy officials are cutting their estimate of how much oil can be drawn out of California's massive Monterey Shale formation by 96 percent.

The United Kingdom Terrorism Act of 2000 gave courts the power to seize assets used to commit or promote terrorist activities, but was never intended to include the family …

In the face of Citizens United and now McCutcheon, to save any semblance of democracy, we must amend the Constitution for the 28th time.

Ag-gag laws target animal rights activists' central goal: to expose animal industries to the public and encourage consumers to stop supporting them. The problem is not documentation of this …

A call to awaken our nation to the suicidal course we are following offers some suggestions on protecting our environment - and reviving our democracy.

Republicans said once Obamacare was passed, government officials would get to ration health care, and as a result, have control over the life and death of millions of Americans.

Major developments in recent days could shape the nationu2019s media landscape for years to come

Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present.

At the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the wages of many of the workers, including 15-year veterans, qualify a family of four for food stamps.