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Washington - Yucca Mountain is still breathing. It's been 24 long years since Congress first designated the desert locale in southern Nevada as the best place to store the …

Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power. Now, with reactors melting down in Japan, the official stance is more disconnected from reality than …

“Anonymous” Hackers Release Controversial Bank of America Emails

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Manama, Bahrain - Nearly a month after the first large-scale protests in Bahrain were violently quelled by police, the country has seen a resurgence of protest and calls for …

The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative …

I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don't …

As we’ve been documenting, several conservative governors have proposed placing the brunt of deficit reduction onto the backs of their state’s public employees, students, and middle-class taxpayers, while simultaneously …

It’s clear that mega-business stands for one thing: profit by any means necessary - even if that means corrupting our public institutions, destroying our unions and controlling our media. …

Wisconsin Republicans copped to the fact Wednesday that their political standoff with the rest of the state was really about smashing unions, not closing the state’s budget gap. Twenty-four …