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As ThinkProgress has noted, despite spending the past year and a half railing against government healthcare, just five Republican members of the 112th Congress have been willing to forgo …

A program to financially assist producers of renewable biomass crops is scheduled to restart, despite problems that led to its termination in April 2010. An inspector general report is …

A political alliance is developing between countries with a labor export policy and the corporations who use that labor in the Global North. Many countries sending migrants to the …

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected one challenge to a federal judge's ruling that declared California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, and the three-judge panel …

Silver was the precious metal at the foundation of the Roman Empire's economy and since silver is often embedded in lead ore, lead was an abundant byproduct available throughout …

Democracy: de-moc-ra-cy, government by the people; the common people of a community, as distinguished from any privileged class

Glenn Beck's new year started a few days late, with a signal that he's hoping that 2011 will be even more momentous than the first two years of the …

Washington - An incoming California Republican congressman made a fundraising splash even before his Wednesday swearing-in, though his glitzy event wasn't to everyone's taste. For $2,500 a ticket, lobbyists …

Nairobi, Kenya - Medical experts have warned that malaria and HIV have monopolised interventions geared towards curbing child mortality in Kenya, thus ignoring the equally deadly killer, diarrhoea. This …