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Welcome to Truthout's Election Day blog, Balance of Power 2010. Here we'll document the details of this historic election as it unfolds. Stay with us for up-to-the minute coverage …

Starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time tonight, Free Speech TV is broadcasting live coverage of the midterm elections from broadcasting centers in New York, Washington, DC and from their …

While election results remain tensely in the air for states like Nevada and Alaska, which have received nationwide attention for their high-profile senatorial and governor campaigns, early California voters …

So-called “parcel bombs” exploded today in the compounds of the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens, injuring no one, according to the Associated Press. They came a day after …

This week the Western Hemisphere will see a tale of two elections: two elections that have a number of key features in common, and some key points of divergence. …

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Washington - The revelation by Wikileaks of a U.S. military order directing U.S. forces not to investigate cases of torture of detainees by Iraqis has been treated in news …

New York Times Los Angeles bureau chief Adam Nagourney can't seem to figure out why the latest polls in California show that Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, a …

This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That — and where to go from here — will be …

Austerity economics has won in Europe. But there is a mythology traveling around that the U.S., at least, has retained the Keynesian orientation that helped cut short an economy …