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Demonstrators react during a march through city center Hama, in Syria, July 16, 2011. “Come on Bashar, leave,” is a song that in the weeks since it was heard …

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican presidential candidate, attends a campaign event in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2011. Pawlenty announced this morning he is ending his candidacy …

Verizon workers on strike on August 9. (Photo: modernsara) The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the …

(Photo: 427) The nation's top economists are already giving odds on a double-dip recession. The Federal Reserve has only a few bullets left in its gun. And …

Ames, Iowa - The race for the Republican presidential nomination came into sharper focus on Saturday as Gov. Rick Perry of Texas declared his candidacy in South Carolina and …

Leonard Peltier, a great-grandfather, artist, writer, and indigenous rights activist, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and has been imprisoned since 1976. (Photo: Leonard Peltier Defense …

As many of his fellow candidates flooded Iowa over the weekend to woo voters at the Ames Straw Poll, Mr. Perry headed to South Carolina announce he was seeking …

A child amidst a makeshift tent camp during a demonstration in Jerusalem, July 31, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) It started in mid-July, …

As some Londoners exhale during a lull in the riots that have raged throughout the United Kingdom since Saturday night, others, particularly young Britons of color, face the hasty, …