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President Barack Obama's decision to appoint Elizabeth Warren to set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) couldn't have come at a more critical time. Over 44 million …

Washington - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced it will provide an additional 75 million dollars in food aid to help Pakistan cope with floods that …

Washington - With little fanfare, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared Monday that the so-called Great Recession is over, determining that the U.S. economy hit bottom in June …

Nine NATO soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday in Afghanistan. Nearly 2,100 NATO troops have died in the nine-year Afghanistan war, with 529 alone this year. Nine …

The stock market shot up on September 13, after new banking regulations called Basel III were announced. Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. The megabanks, propped …

Americans are facing a troubling reality. The economic recovery we were promised has not materialized. There’s growing talk about a “new normal”—a new way of life to take us …

Washington - Boy, one thing I really hate is when American judges try to impose harsh Islamic sharia law. You know, with all those grisly lashings, stonings and beheadings. …

You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is …

Who deserves a tax cut more: the top 2 percent — whose wages and benefits are higher than ever, and among whose ranks are the CEOs and Wall Street …

Almost nine years into longest war in US history, at a time when the US spends more on its military budget than the rest of the world combined and …