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On May 17th, 1990 the World Health Organizations made a decision to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. Since then, each year May 17th is considered the …

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow reports on the Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Nebraska, which is threatened by the …

Washington - The Obama administration announced Thursday that it planned to release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as part of a coordinated international effort …

Beware, Florida Republicans: The tea party movement that swept you into office in 2010 could cost you the next election. That's the takeaway message from Republican pollster …

Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes his seat to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, on June 15, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) …

Even as China prepares to open bullet train service from Beijing to Shanghai by July 1, this nation's steadily expanding high-speed rail network is being pilloried on a scale …

President Obama declared Wednesday that the United States had largely achieved its goals in Afghanistan, setting in motion a substantial withdrawal of American troops in an acknowledgment of the …

Nobel laureate Peter Diamond had a depressing Op-Ed in The New York Times on June 5, withdrawing himself from contention as a member of the Federal Reserve board in …

Librarians recommend “The Recall of Scott Walker” during a demonstration in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 12, 2011. (Photo: Sue Peacock) Just a few months ago, conservatives had …

Now that Washington has at least six wars cooking (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and more generally, the global war on terror,) Americans find themselves in a new …