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Shahri Buzurg, Afghanistan - When police officers in this isolated Afghanistan village moved out of their dilapidated headquarters in 2008 to make way for U.S.-funded construction crews, they were …

David Coleman Headley seemed like a gregarious, high-rolling American businessman when he set up shop in Mumbai in September 2006. He opened the office of an immigration consulting firm.

"... it is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, …

Rangel Ethics Case Moves on Without Rangel

This week, Cindy McCain caused a stir when she seemingly broke with her husband, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy when she …

At this point most of the country has heard the story of “Aqua Buddha.” According to an anonymous account, during his college days, Kentucky Sen.-elect Rand Paul dragged a …

A strange thing happened on the way to the G-20 meetings: world elite opinion has turned against the Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing” (QE) program, the only significant “Keynesian” macroeconomic …

The GOP's midterm election gains and partisan disputes in Congress have put struggling HIV/AIDS programs in a precarious situation. Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last week …

The gift from a right-wing chief justice and his comrades was too much to pass up. Corporate of the Koch Kind is quickly permeating everything and, with the Citizens …

Washington - The lame-duck session of Congress that kicks off this week will test whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh, and whether President Obama has decided to pretend …