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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 …

(Photo: kawamoto takuo / Flickr) Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and …

(Photo: RafahKid Kid / Flickr) Thinking further here in Athens about how it came to be that I joined the passengers on “The Audacity of Hope” and …

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 …

(Photo: twitpic) The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — …

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 …

In the debt-ceiling debate Republicans are holding the country hostage again, demanding that the country shift to a radical pro-big-corporate/big-wealth agenda as the ransom. At the same time the …