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Some of the newly elected Tea Party senators, including Rand Paul and Pat Toomey, have already said there is good reason to reduce the hyper-bloated Pentagon budget. However, it …

Washington, D.C. - Haiti's elections, which were fraught with widespread irregularities and the arbitrary exclusion of political parties, should be rejected by the international community, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of …

Kabul, Afghanistan - A man dressed in an Afghan Border Police uniform turned his weapon on international troops in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing six service members before himself …

The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR) and everyone else who is respectable in Washington agrees: we must do something about the deficit now. They also agree that this …

In a historic vote, the City of Pittsburgh today adopted a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning corporations from natural gas drilling in the city. Faced with the potential for drilling - …

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Frustrated voters flooded the streets and several presidential candidates called for the government to annul Sunday’s Haiti election due to problems at polls throughout the country. …

You've heard of the Social Security crisis. And you've probably heard that the pensions promised to state employees are terribly underfunded. And maybe you've even heard that most Americans …

Washington - Can we govern ourselves in the next two years? Do Republicans have any interest in accomplishments that might even indirectly benefit President Obama? These questions hang over …

Editor's Note: The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel have published stories this afternoon revealing details of the State Department cables.