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A US air attack that mistakenly killed three Pakistani border troops sparked the government to close the Torkham border post, a vital NATO supply line into Afghanistan. Taipei, Taiwan …

“... Budgets are moral documents,” states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but “they don't lend themselves to a moral reading.” She adds that increases in military spending are made at the …

The Environmental Protection Agency last week resuscitated an interagency working group to tackle environmental justice, an issue that hasn’t been discussed much in Washington in nearly a decade. EPA …

Whether expressed in the archives of the Schomburg Center in Harlem, New York, or the African-American Research Library in Atlanta, Georgia, interest in the history of the black experience …

Washington - Congress shut off the lights just after 1:04 a.m. Thursday, as lawmakers go home to face voters in what surveys indicate will be, for many incumbents, the …

Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the television and newspaper market …

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Sometimes it's the little things in the big stories that catch your eye. On Monday, the Washington Post ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward's new …

Washington - The House of Representatives voted 348 to 79 Wednesday to send a strong pre-election, bipartisan message to China: Stop manipulating your currency to keep it artificially low …

Comedienne, actress and activist Margaret Cho is best known for her stand-up routines in which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race, sexuality and sex. …