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Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …

London - Prime Minister David Cameron cut short an African trip on Monday and ordered a special parliamentary session back home to debate the widening phone-hacking scandal just hours …

Ladydrawers, a new semimonthly comics collaboration, looks at the reasons behind gender bias in the media and in the comics world, and the impact that these dynamics have in …

London - Britain’s top police official resigned on Sunday, the latest casualty of the phone-hacking scandal engulfing British public life, just hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive …

London - The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Services, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post on Sunday just hours after his officers arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of …

Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …

In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …

Antonio and Jocelyn Sanchez. (Photos: David Bacon) Driving south out of Silicon Valley, the big electronics plants gradually disappear, along with the sprawling developments that house their …

Scott Bloch, the former special counsel to President George W. Bush, requested to withdraw his guilty plea to a misdemeanor contempt of Congress charge. (Photo: U.S. Office of Special …