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Washington - The United States is considering seeking targeted sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime amid reports that it unleashed tanks and troops in an escalating crackdown on …

Washington - The Supreme Court refused Monday to bypass the lower courts and take up an immediate challenge to the constitutionality of the national healthcare reform law and its …

Take a pigeon. Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don't give the bird much freedom to move. Don't …

At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it …

Phoenix - It’s a warm afternoon at a trailer park in Central Phoenix as Isidro Carreras sets up chairs on his lawn. Neighbors start arriving gradually, until a group …

House GOP Attorney Stops Fighting for Defense of Marriage Act According to Think Progress, House GOP-hired attorney Paul Clement, a former solicitor general, recently dropped the Defense …

A Confederate battle flag flies Wednesday next to a memorial to Confederate war dead near the Dodge County Courthouse, in the background, in Eastman. (Photo: Grant Blankenship / The …

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The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a photo taken on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The release by WikiLeaks …

Tell me again—why the invasion of Iraq? As WhoWhatWhy readers know, we don’t consider this a quaint item of obscure historical interest. We’ve reported on several different …