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There aren't too many genuine heroes to come out of the banking disaster, but Armando Falcon is one of them. You have probably never heard of him, but his …

Nogales, Mexico - As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where …

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has launched an investigation into Abu Zubaydah, the "high-value" detainee captured in March 2002 that the Bush administration wrongly claimed was one of …

Washington - New York hedge fund manager John Paulson was one of the first to predict the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — and to cash in on …

Gay rights activists cheered Obama's memo on hospital visitation rights, but the president faces increasing tension with constituencies who helped elect him and expected faster results. Washington - President …

Rio de Janeiro - Since the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement, there has been no louder and more compelling call for a rethinking of the international economic system as …

Raleigh, North Carolina - Five former employees of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater violated a series of federal firearms laws to give the company a leg …

No matter how much this week's Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is "a disaster," as Ted Koppel said recently. And unfortunately, retrospection …

Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you …

With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for …